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To investigate the many-body ground states and interaction effects of ultracold fermions and bosons in flat bands formed by p orbitals on a two-dimensional honeycomb optical lattice.

August 16, 2007Physical Review LettersOpen Access

Flat Bands and Wigner Crystallization in the Honeycomb Optical Lattice

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CWCongjun WuWestlake University DBDoron L. BergmanÉcole Normale Supérieure de Lyon LBLeon BalentsMassachusetts Institute of Technology

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Theoretical modeling reveals crystalline order and dimerized bonding in honeycomb optical lattices, suggesting viable detection via time-of-flight noise correlations.

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To investigate the many-body ground states and interaction effects of ultracold fermions and bosons in flat bands formed by p orbitals on a two-dimensional honeycomb optical lattice.
Modeled cold atoms using tight-binding bands constructed from p orbitals on a 2D honeycomb optical lattice with on-site repulsion.
Derived exact many-body ground states across low particle densities for both fermionic and bosonic systems.
Identified a crystalline ground state with a sqrt[3] x sqrt[3] superstructure that breaks discrete lattice symmetries at a particle filling of n=1/6.
Found dimerized bonding strength in fermionic systems at n=1/2 under strong on-site repulsion.
Determined that the predicted crystalline ordering exhibits observable experimental signatures in time-of-flight noise correlation measurements.

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Wu et al. (2007) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a6f1a52e5469ee92be0299e https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.99.070401

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Theoretical modeling reveals crystalline order and dimerized bonding in honeycomb optical lattices, suggesting viable detection via time-of-flight noise correlations.

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