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arXiv:2106.09418 · Nano Letters

Phonon-Induced Pairing in Quantum Dot Quantum Simulator

Utso Bhattacharya, Tobias Graß, Adrian Bachtold, Maciej Lewenstein, F. Pistolesi

Published Nov 10, 2021• 10 citations
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Abstract

Quantum simulations can provide new insights into the physics of strongly correlated electronic systems. A well-studied system, but still open in many regards, is the Hubbard-Holstein Hamiltonian, where electronic repulsion is in competition with attraction generated by the electron-phonon coupling. In this context, we study the behavior of four quantum dots in a suspended carbon nanotube and coupled to its flexural degrees of freedom. The system is described by a Hamiltonian of the Hubbard-Holstein class, where electrons on different sites interact with the same phonon. We find that the system presents a transition from the Mott insulating state to a polaronic state, with the appearance of pairing correlations and the breaking of the translational symmetry. These findings will motivate further theoretical and experimental efforts to employ nanoelectromechanical systems to simulate strongly correlated systems with electron-phonon interactions.

DOI
10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c03457

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We investigate the interaction of strongly correlated electrons with phonons in the frame of the Hubbard-Holstein model. The electron-phonon interaction is considered to be strong and is an important parameter of the model besides the Coulomb repulsion of electrons and band filling. This interaction with the nondispersive optical phonons has been transformed to the problem of mobile polarons by using the canonical transformation of Lang and Firsov. A new diagram technique is used in order to handle the strong Coulomb repulsion of the electrons, which leads to a closed set of integral equations for the irreducible on-site many-particle Green's functions. The coupling to the phonons leads to an essential renormalization of the one- and two-particle irreducible Green's functions. It also influences the parameters which control the metal-insulator or superconducting phase transition. In addition we find a collective mode of phonon clouds which surround the polarons. The physics of the emission and absorption of this mode by the polarons has been investigated.
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