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Physical Review Letters

Instabilities of anisotropic interacting Fermi systems

Claudio Castellani, C. Di Castro, Walter Metzner

Published Sep 14, 1992• 58 citations
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Abstract

We analyze interacting lattice fermions with anisotropic hopping amplitudes. Calculating the linear response of the momentum distribution function, we find that one-dimensional Luttinger liquid phases are unstable with respect to arbitrarily small transverse hopping, even if the interaction is strong. This instability is expected to signal the formation of states with broken symmetry in the strongly anisotropic regime.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.69.1703

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We report on the ground state of models for strongly correlated one-dimensional Fermi systems by means of theoretical studies of two-component atomic Fermi gases in highly anisotropic harmonic traps. In this context, we consider (i) the Gaudin-Yang model for a Luttinger liquid with repulsive interactions, including an analysis of the emergence of Wigner molecules in the 2k F → 4k F crossover, and (ii) the lattice Hubbard model yielding Luttinger liquid and Mott insulator or band-insulator phases for repulsive interactions and the Luther-Emery phase for attractive interactions, including in the former case an analysis of the role of disorder. Our calculations use novel versions of density and spin-density functional theory and a density-matrix renormalization-group technique. We also discuss preliminary results and future perspectives in the study of nonsymmetric two-component Fermi gases.