Birefringent break up of Dirac fermions in a square optical lattice
arXiv:1011.1502 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.83.053636
Abstract
We generalize a proposal by Sorensen et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 086803 (2005)] for creating an artificial magnetic field in a cold atom system on a square optical lattice. This leads us to an effective lattice model with tunable spatially periodic modulation of the artificial magnetic field and the hopping amplitude. When there is an average flux of half a flux quantum per plaquette the spectrum of low-energy excitations can be described by massless Dirac fermions in which the usually doubly degenerate Dirac cones split into cones with different "speeds of light" which can be tuned to give a single Dirac cone and a flat band. These gapless birefringent Dirac fermions arise because of broken chiral symmetry in the kinetic energy term of the effective low energy Hamiltonian. We characterize the effects of various perturbations to the low-energy spectrum, including staggered potentials, interactions, and domain wall topological defects.
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