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Quantum phases in a resonantly-interacting Bose-Fermi mixture

Statistical Mechanics 2014-10-13 v1

Abstract

We consider a resonantly-interacting Bose-Fermi mixture of 40^{40}K and 87^{87}Rb atoms in an optical lattice. We show that by using a red-detuned optical lattice the mixture can be accurately described by a generalized Hubbard model for 40^{40}K and 87^{87}Rb atoms, and 40^{40}K-87^{87}Rb molecules. The microscopic parameters of this model are fully determined by the details of the optical lattice and the interspecies Feshbach resonance in the absence of the lattice. We predict a quantum phase transition to occur in this system already at low atomic filling fraction, and present the phase diagram as a function of the temperature and the applied magnetic field.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0502328,
  title  = {Quantum phases in a resonantly-interacting Bose-Fermi mixture},
  author = {D. B. M. Dickerscheid and D. van Oosten and E. J. Tillema and H. T. C. Stoof},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0502328},
  year   = {2014}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures

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