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$\eta$-pairing superfluid in periodically-driven fermionic Hubbard model with strong attraction

Quantum Gases 2016-11-11 v3 Superconductivity

Abstract

We propose a novel possibility of dynamically changing the pairing of superconductors from ss wave to η\eta pairing (where the pairs condense at the Brillouin-zone corner momenta) by driving the system with ac fields. We consider a periodically-driven attractive Hubbard model in the strong-coupling regime, and show that the pair-hopping and pair-repulsion terms in the effective Hamiltonian in the Floquet formalism are drastically renormalized in different manners between the two terms, which can change the ground states from an ss-wave superconductivity to an η\eta-pairing superconductivity or a charge-ordered phase. While in isolated systems such as cold atoms a simple quench scheme would not realize the dynamical phase transition into η\eta pairing, we show that there are pathways that realize the dynamical transition, where the field amplitude is varied via a charge-ordered phase as an intermediate state.

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@article{arxiv.1511.07890,
  title  = {$\eta$-pairing superfluid in periodically-driven fermionic Hubbard model with strong attraction},
  author = {Sota Kitamura and Hideo Aoki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.07890},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

10 pages, 9 figures

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