Counterflow Superfluidity of Two-Species Ultracold Atoms in a Commensurate Optical Lattice
Anatoly B. Kuklov, Boris V. Svistunov
In the Mott-insulator regime, two species of ultracold atoms in an optical lattice can exhibit the low-energy counterflow motion. We construct effective Hamiltonians for the three classes of the two-species (fermion-fermion, boson-boson, and boson-fermion-type) insulators and reveal the conditions when the resulting ground state supports super-counter-fluidity (SCF), with the alternative being phase segregation. We emphasize a crucial role of breaking the isotopic symmetry between the species for realizing the SCF phase.
arXiv:cond-mat/0205069•Physical Review Letters•Mar 12, 2003•494 citations