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Orbital selective crossover and Mott transitions in an asymmetric Hubbard model of cold atoms in optical lattices
We study the asymmetric Hubbard model at half-filling as a generic model to
describe the physics of two species of repulsively interacting fermionic cold
atoms in optical lattices. We use Dynamical Mean Field Theory to obtain the
paramagnetic phase diagram of the model as function of temperature, interaction
strength and hopping asymmetry. A Mott transition with a region of two
coexistent solutions is found for all nonzero values of the hopping asymmetry.
At low temperatures the metallic phase is a heavy Fermi-liquid, qualitatively
analogous to the Fermi liquid state of the symmetric Hubbard model. Above a
coherence temperature, an orbital-selective crossover takes place, wherein one
fermionic species effectively localizes, and the resulting bad metallic state
resembles the non-Fermi liquid state of the Falicov-Kimball model. We compute
observables relevant to cold atom systems such as the double occupation, the
specific heat and entropy and characterize their behavior in the different
phases
Weak coupling study of decoherence of a qubit in disordered magnetic environments
We study the decoherence of a qubit weakly coupled to frustrated spin baths.
We focus on spin-baths described by the classical Ising spin glass and the
quantum random transverse Ising model which are known to have complex
thermodynamic phase diagrams as a function of an external magnetic field and
temperature. Using a combination of numerical and analytical methods, we show
that for baths initally in thermal equilibrium, the resulting decoherence is
highly sensitive to the nature of the coupling to the environment and is
qualitatively different in different parts of the phase diagram. We find an
unexpected strong non-Markovian decay of the coherence when the random
transverse Ising model bath is prepared in an initial state characterized by a
finite temperature paramagnet. This is contrary to the usual case of
exponential decay (Markovian) expected for spin baths in finite temperature
paramagnetic phases, thereby illustrating the importance of the underlying
non-trivial dynamics of interacting quantum spinbaths.Comment: 12 pages, 18 figure
Phase diagram of the asymmetric Hubbard model and an entropic chromatographic method for cooling cold fermions in optical lattices
We study the phase diagram of the asymmetric Hubbard model (AHM), which is
characterized by different values of the hopping for the two spin projections
of a fermion or equivalently, two different orbitals. This model is expected to
provide a good description of a mass-imbalanced cold fermionic mixture in a 3D
optical lattice. We use the dynamical mean field theory to study various
physical properties of this system. In particular, we show how
orbital-selective physics, observed in multi-orbital strongly correlated
electron systems, can be realized in such a simple model. We find that the
density distribution is a good probe of this orbital selective crossover from a
Fermi liquid to a non-Fermi liquid state.
Below an ordering temperature , which is a function of both the
interaction and hopping asymmetry, the system exhibits staggered long range
orbital order. Apart from the special case of the symmetric limit, i.e.,
Hubbard model, where there is no hopping asymmetry, this orbital order is
accompanied by a true charge density wave order for all values of the hopping
asymmetry. We calculate the order parameters and various physical quantities
including the thermodynamics in both the ordered and disordered phases. We find
that the formation of the charge density wave is signaled by an abrupt increase
in the sublattice double occupancies. Finally, we propose a new method,
entropic chromatography, for cooling fermionic atoms in optical lattices, by
exploiting the properties of the AHM. To establish this cooling strategy on a
firmer basis, we also discuss the variations in temperature induced by the
adiabatic tuning of interactions and hopping parameters.Comment: 16 pages, 19 fig
Quantum Monte Carlo calculation of the finite temperature Mott-Hubbard transition
We present clear numerical evidence for the coexistence of metallic and
insulating dynamical mean field theory(DMFT) solutions in a half-filled
single-band Hubbard model with bare semicircular density of states at finite
temperatures. Quantum Monte Carlo(QMC) method is used to solve the DMFT
equations. We discuss important technical aspects of the DMFT-QMC which need to
be taken into account in order to obtain the reliable results near the
coexistence region. Among them are the critical slowing down of the iterative
solutions near phase boundaries, the convergence criteria for the DMFT
iterations, the interpolation of the discretized Green's function and the
reduction of QMC statistical and systematic errors. Comparison of our results
with those of other numerical methods is presented in a phase diagram.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Landau Theory of the Finite Temperature Mott Transition
In the context of the dynamical mean-field theory of the Hubbard model, we
identify microscopically an order parameter for the finite temperature Mott
endpoint. We derive a Landau functional of the order parameter. We then use the
order parameter theory to elucidate the singular behavior of various physical
quantities which are experimentally accessible.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
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