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Enhancement of Local Pairing Correlations in Periodically Driven Mott Insulators

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2020-04-08 v2

Abstract

We investigate a model for a Mott insulator in presence of a time-periodic modulated interaction and a coupling to a thermal reservoir. The combination of drive and dissipation leads to non-equilibrium steady states with a large number of doublon excitations, well above the maximum thermal-equilibrium value. We interpret this effect as an enhancement of local pairing correlations, providing analytical arguments based on a Floquet Hamiltonian. Remarkably, this Hamiltonian shows a tendency to develop long-range staggered superconducting correlations. This suggests the possibility of realizing the elusive eta-pairing phase in driven-dissipative Mott Insulators.

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@article{arxiv.1904.00857,
  title  = {Enhancement of Local Pairing Correlations in Periodically Driven Mott Insulators},
  author = {Francesco Peronaci and Olivier Parcollet and Marco Schiró},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.00857},
  year   = {2020}
}

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6+5 pages