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Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 030601 (2006) [4 pages]

Competing Types of Order in Two-Dimensional Bose-Fermi Mixtures

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L. Mathey1, S.-W. Tsai2, and A. H. Castro Neto3
1Physics Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
2Department of Physics, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA
3Department of Physics, Boston University, 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA

Received 20 February 2006; published 19 July 2006

Using a functional renormalization group approach we study the zero temperature phase diagram of two-dimensional Bose-Fermi mixtures of ultracold atoms in optical lattices, in the limit when the velocity of bosonic condensate fluctuations is much larger than the Fermi velocity. For spin-1/2 fermions we obtain a phase diagram, which shows a competition of pairing phases of various orbital symmetry (s, p, and d) and antiferromagnetic order. We determine the value of the gaps of various phases close to half filling, and identify subdominant orders as well as short-range fluctuations from the renormalization group flow. For spinless fermions we find that p-wave pairing dominates the phase diagram.

© 2006 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.030601
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.030601
PACS:
05.10.Cc, 03.75.Hh, 03.75.Mn, 64.60.Ak