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Possible quantum phase-manipulation of a two-leg ladder in mixed-dimensional fermionic cold atoms
The recent realization of mixed-dimensional systems of cold atoms has
attracted much attention from both experimentalists and theorists. Different
effective interactions and novel correlated quantum many-body phases may be
engineered in these systems, with the different phases being tunable via
external parameters. In this article we investigate a two-species Fermi atom
mixture: one species of atom exists in two hyperfine states and is confined to
move in a two-leg ladder, interacting with an on-site interaction, and the
other moves freely in a two dimensional square lattice that contains the
two-leg ladder. The two species of atoms interact via an on-site interaction on
the ladder. In the limit of weak inter-species interactions, the
two-dimensional gas can be integrated out, leading to an effective long-range
mediated interaction in the ladder, generated by to the on-site inter-species
interaction. We show that the form of the mediated interaction can be
controlled by the density of the two-dimensional gas and that it enhances the
charge density wave instability in the two-leg ladder after the renormalization
group transformation. Parameterizing the phase diagram with various
experimentally controllable quantities, we discuss the possible tuning of the
macroscopic quantum many-body phases of the two-leg ladder in this
mixed-dimensional fermionic cold atom system.Comment: 4 pages and 3 figure
Unconventional superconducting phases on a two-dimensional extended Hubbard model
We study the phase diagram of the extended Hubbard model on a two-dimensional
square lattice, including on-site (U) and nearest-neighbor (V) interactions, at
weak couplings. We show that the charge-density-wave phase that is known to
occur at half-filling when 4V > U gives way to a d_{xy} -wave superconducting
instability away from half-filling, when the Fermi surface is not perfectly
nested, and for sufficiently large repulsive and a range of on-site repulsive
interaction. In addition, when nesting is further suppressed and in presence of
a nearest-neighbor attraction, a triplet time-reversal breaking (p_x +
ip_y)-wave pairing instability emerges, competing with the d_{x2+y2} pairing
state that is known to dominate at fillings just slightly away from half. At
even smaller fillings, where the Fermi surface no longer presents any nesting,
the (p_x +ip_y)-wave superconducting phase dominates in the whole regime of
on-site repulsions and nearest-neighbor attractions, while d_{xy}-pairing
occurs in the presence of on-site attraction. Our results suggest that
zero-energy Majorana fermions can be realized on a square lattice in the
presence of a magnetic field. For a system of cold fermionic atoms on a
two-dimensional square optical lattice, both an on-site repulsion and a
nearest-neighbor attraction would be required, in addition to rotation of the
system to create vortices. We discuss possible ways of experimentally
engineering the required interaction terms in a cold atom system
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