| Issue |
EPL
Volume 88, Number 3, November 2009
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| Article Number | 36001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Structural, Mechanical and Thermal Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/88/36001 | |
| Published online | 02 November 2009 | |
Strongly interacting two-dimensional Dirac fermions
1
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University - Leuvenlaan 4, 3584 CE Utrecht, The Netherlands, EU
2
Institut für Laser-Physik, Universität Hamburg - Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany, EU
Corresponding author: l.k.lim@uu.nl
Received:
23
September
2009
Accepted:
14
October
2009
We show how strongly interacting two-dimensional Dirac fermions can be realized with ultracold atoms in a two-dimensional optical square lattice with an experimentally realistic, inherent gauge field, which breaks time reversal and inversion symmetries. We find remarkable phenomena in a temperature range around a tenth of the Fermi temperature, accessible with present experimental techniques: at zero chemical potential, besides a conventional s-wave superconducting phase, unconventional superconductivity with non-local bond pairing arises. In a temperature vs. doping phase diagram, the unconventional superconducting phase exhibits a dome structure, reminiscent of the phase diagram for high-temperature superconductors and heavy fermions.
PACS: 67.85.Pq – Mixtures of Bose and Fermi gases / 37.10.Jk – Atoms in optical lattices / 71.10.Fd – Lattice fermion models (Hubbard model, etc.)
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