Magnetisms of spinor alkali and alkaline-earth atoms in optical lattices

Abstract

We theoretically investigate zero-temperature magnetic ordering of mixtures of spin-1 (alkali atoms) and spin-0 (alkaline-earth atoms) bosons in a three-dimensional optical lattice. With the single-mode approximation for the spin-1 bosons, we obtain an effective Bose-Hubbard model for describing the heteronuclear mixtures in optical lattices. By controlling the interspecies interactions between alkali and alkaline-earth atoms, we map out complete phase diagrams of the system with both positive and negative spin-dependent interactions for spin-1 atoms, based on bosonic dynamical mean-field theory. We find that the spin-1 components feature ferromagnetic and nematic insulating phases, in addition to the superfluid, depending on spin-dependent interactions. Take the spin-1 alkali bosons as spin $\uparrow$, and spin-0 alkaline-earth bosons as spin $\downarrow$, we observe that the system favors ferromagnetic insulator at filling $n=1$, and unorder insulator at $n=2$. Interestingly, we observe a two-step Mott-insulating-superfluid phase transition, as a result of mass imbalance between alkali and alkaline-earth atoms.

arXiv comment9 pages, and 5 figures, Accepted by Phys. Rev. A

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