Critical temperature bounds of quantum lattice gases

Peter J. Love

Matthew Wingate A

Dilute gases of 2-component fermions are of great interest in atomic and nuclear physics. When interactions are strong enough so that a bound state is at threshold, universal behavior is expected. Lattice field theory provides a first principles approach to the study of strongly interacting systems such as this through Monte Carlo simulation. Results of exploratory simulations are presented here. In particular, the finite temperature phase transition between superfluid and normal states is studied. We present first results for the critical temperature T_c and describe the future work necessary to determine T_c as a function of interaction strength.

Boris Volodumurovich Bondarev

Sergio S. Botelho, C. A. R. Sá de Melo

We discuss ultracold Fermi gases in two dimensions, which could be realized in a strongly confining one-dimensional optical lattice. We obtain the temperature versus effective interaction phase diagram for an s-wave superfluid and show that, below a certain critical temperature Tc, spontaneous vortex-antivortex pairs appear for all coupling strengths. In addition, we show that the evolution from weak-to-strong coupling is smooth, and that the system forms a square vortex-antivortex lattice at a lower critical temperature TM.

Renu Bala, Sunita Srivastava, K. N. Pathak

Abdulla Rakhimov, I. N. Askerzade

We have shown that the critical temperature of a Bose-Einstein condensate to a normal phase transition of noninteracting bosons in cubic optical lattices has a linear dependence on the filling factor, especially at large densities. The condensed fraction exhibits a linear power law dependence on temperature in contrast to the case of ideal homogeneous Bose gases.