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Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 120406 (2004) [4 pages]

Bose-Einstein Condensation of Particle-Hole Pairs in Ultracold Fermionic Atoms Trapped within Optical Lattices

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Chaohong Lee*
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzer Straße 38, D-01187 Dresden, Germany
Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China

Received 15 March 2004; published 14 September 2004

We investigate the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC, superfluidity) of particle-hole pairs in ultracold fermionic atoms with repulsive interactions and arbitrary polarization, which are trapped within optical lattices. In the strongly repulsive limit, the dynamics of particle-hole pairs can be described by a hard-core Bose-Hubbard model. The insulator-superfluid and charge-density-wave- (CDW) superfluid phase transitions can be induced by decreasing and increasing the potential depths with controlling the trapping laser intensity, respectively. The parameter and polarization dependence of the critical temperatures for the ordered states (BEC and/or CDW) are discussed simultaneously.

© 2004 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.120406
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.120406
PACS:
03.75.Ss, 32.80.Pj, 71.30.+h

*Electronic addresses: chlee@mpipks-dresden.mpg.de;

chleecn@hotmail.com