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Fermion mediated long-range interactions of bosons in the 1D Bose-Fermi-Hubbard model

Other Condensed Matter 2013-05-29 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

The ground-state phase diagram of mixtures of spin polarized fermions and bosons in a 1D periodic lattice is discussed in the limit of large fermion hopping and half filling of the fermions. Numerical simulations performed with the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) show besides bosonic Mott insulating (MI), superfluid (SF), and charge density-wave phases (CDW) a novel phase with spatial separation of MI and CDW regions. We derive an effective bosonic theory which allows for a complete understanding and quantitative prediction of the bosonic phase diagram. In particular the origin of CDW phase and the MI-CDW phase separation is revealed as the interplay between fermion-induced mean-field potential and long range interaction with alternating sign.

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@article{arxiv.0903.5226,
  title  = {Fermion mediated long-range interactions of bosons in the 1D Bose-Fermi-Hubbard model},
  author = {Alexander Mering and Michael Fleischhauer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.5226},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

4+epsilon pages; major revision containing new numerical results