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Mott insulators and correlated superfluids in ultracold Bose-Fermi mixtures

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

We study the effects of interaction between bosons and fermions in a Bose-Fermi mixtures loaded in an optical lattice. We concentrate on the destruction of a bosonic Mott phase driven by repulsive interaction between bosons and fermions. Once the Mott phase is destroyed, the system enters a superfluid phase where the movements of bosons and fermions are correlated. We show that this phase has simultaneously correlations reminiscent of a conventional superfluid and of a pseudo-spin density wave order.

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@article{arxiv.0706.3799,
  title  = {Mott insulators and correlated superfluids in ultracold Bose-Fermi mixtures},
  author = {F. Hebert and F. Haudin and L. Pollet and G. G. Batrouni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.3799},
  year   = {2009}
}