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arxiv: 1103.5964 · v2 · pith:4ONBRZFQnew · submitted 2011-03-30 · ❄️ cond-mat.quant-gas · cond-mat.str-el

Orbital order of spinless fermions near an optical Feshbach resonance

classification ❄️ cond-mat.quant-gas cond-mat.str-el
keywords opticalorbitalfermionsfeshbachlatticeorbitalsorderphases
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We study the quantum phases of a three-color Hubbard model that arises in the dynamics of the p-band orbitals of spinless fermions in an optical lattice. Strong, color-dependent interactions are induced by an optical Feshbach resonance. Starting from the microscopic scattering properties of ultracold atoms, we derive the orbital exchange constants at 1/3 filling on the cubic optical lattice. Using this, we compute the phase diagram in a Gutzwiller ansatz. We find novel phases with 'axial orbital order' in which pz and px + ipy (or px - ipy) orbitals alternate.

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