Effect of boson on-site repulsion on the superfluidity in the boson-fermion-Hubbard model
arXiv:1706.08375 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.97.033605
Abstract
We analyze the finite-temperature phase diagram of the boson-fermion-Hubbard model with Feshbach converting interaction, using the coherent-state path-integral method. We show that depending on the position of the bosonic band, this type of interaction, even if weak, can drive the system into the resonant superfluid phase in the strong bosonic interaction limit. It turns out that this phase can exist for an arbitrary number of fermions (i.e., fermionic concentration between 0 and 2) but with the bosonic particle number very close to an integer value. We point out that the standard time-of-flight method in optical lattice experiments can be an adequate technique to confirm the existence of this resonant phase. Moreover, in the non-resonant regime, the enhancement of the critical temperature of the superfluid phase due to Feshbach interaction is also observed. We account for this interesting phenomena for a hole- or particlelike pairing mechanism depending on the system density and mutual location of the fermionic and bosonic bands.
15 pages, 8 figures
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