novel orbital phases of fermions in p -band optical lattices
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Novel Orbital Phases of Fermions in p -band Optical Lattices. Congjun Wu. Department of Physics, UC San Diego. W. C. Lee, C. Wu, S. Das Sarma, in preparation. C. Wu, PRL 101, 168807 (2008). C. Wu, PRL 100, 200406 (2008) . C. Wu, and S. Das Sarma, PRB 77, 235107 (2008). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Novel Orbital Phases of Fermionsin p-band Optical Lattices
Congjun Wu Department of Physics, UC San Diego
Feb. 23, 2009, KITP
Collaborators: L. Balents, D. Bergman, S. Das Sarma, H. H. Hung, W. C. Lee, S. Z. Zhang; W. V. Liu, V. Stojanovic.
W. C. Lee, C. Wu, S. Das Sarma, in preparation.C. Wu, PRL 101, 168807 (2008).C. Wu, PRL 100, 200406 (2008). C. Wu, and S. Das Sarma, PRB 77, 235107 (2008).S. Zhang , H. H. Hung, and C. Wu, arXiv:0805.3031. C. Wu, D. Bergman, L. Balents, and S. Das Sarma, PRL 99, 67004(2007).
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Thanks to: I. Bloch, L. M. Duan, T. L. Ho, Z. Nussinov, S. C. Zhang.
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Outline
• Introduction to orbital physics.
• Bosons: meta-stable states with long life time; complex-condensations beyond the no-node theorem.
New directions of cold atoms: bosons and fermions in high-orbital bands; pioneering experiments.
• Fermions: px,y-orbital counterpart of graphene.
1. Flat band structure and non-perturbative effects.
3. p-orbital Mott insulators: orbital exchange; a new type of frustrated magnet-like model; a cousin of the Kitaev model.
2. p-orbital band insulators (topological) – Haldane’s model induced by orbital angular momentum polarization.
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Research focuses of cold atom physics
• Great success of cold atom physics in the past decade:BEC; superfluid-Mott insulator transition;
Multi-component bosons and fermions;
fermion superfluidity and BEC-BCS crossover; polar molecules … …
• Orbital Physics: new physics of bosons and fermions in high-orbital bands.
Good timing: pioneering experiments on orbital-bosons.
Square lattice (Mainz); double well lattice (NIST); polariton lattice (Stanford).
J. J. Sebby-Strabley, et al., PRA 73, 33605 (2006); T. Mueller et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 200405 (2007); C. W. Lai et al., Nature 450, 529 (2007).
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Orbital physics
• Orbital degeneracy and spatial anisotropy.
• cf. transition metal oxides (d-orbital bands with electrons).
La1-xSr1+xMnO4
• Orbital: a degree of freedom independent of charge and spin.Tokura, et al., science 288, 462,
(2000).
LaOFeAs
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• Solid state orbital systems:
Jahn-Teller distortion quenches orbital degree of freedom;
only fermions;
correlation effects in p-orbitals are weak.
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Advantages of optical lattice orbital systems
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• Optical lattices orbital systems:
rigid lattice free of distortion;
both bosons (meta-stable excited states with long life time) and fermions;
strongly correlated px,y-orbitals: stronger anisotropy
-bond -bond
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Bosons: Feynman’s no-node theorem • The many-body ground state wavefunctions (WF) of bosons in the coordinate-representation are positive-definite in the absence of rotation.
0),...,( 21 nrrr),...,( 21 nrrr |),...,(| 21 nrrr
• Strong constraint: complex-valued WF positive definite WF; time-reversal symmetry cannot be spontanously broken.
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• Feynman’s statement applies to all of superfluid, Mott-insulating, super-solid, density-wave ground states, etc.
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No-node theorem doesn’t apply to orbital bosons
W. V. Liu and C. Wu, PRA 74, 13607 (2006);C. Wu, Mod. Phys. Lett. 23, 1 (2009).
• Complex condensate wavefunctions; spontaneous time reversal symmetry breaking.
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C. Wu, W. V. Liu, J. Moore and S. Das Sarma, PRL 97, 190406 (2006).
Other group’s related work: Ofir Alon et al, PRL 95 2005. V. W. Scarola et. al, PRL, 2005; A. Isacsson et. al., PRA 2005; A. B. Kuklov, PRL 97, 2006; C. Xu et al., cond-mat/0611620 .
yx ipp
yx ipp
yx ipp
• Orbital Hund’s rule interaction; ordering of orbital angular momentum moments.
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Px,y-orbital counterpart of graphene
• Band flatness and strong correlation effect.
(e.g. Wigner crystal, and flat band ferromagnetism.)C. Wu, and S. Das Sarma, PRB 77, 235107(2008); C. Wu et al, PRL 99, 67004(2007). Shizhong zhang and C. Wu, arXiv:0805.3031.
• P-orbital Mott insulators: orbital exchange; from Kitaev to quantum 120 degree model.
C. Wu, PRL 100, 200406 (2008.
C. Wu, PRL 101, 186807 (2008).
• P-orbital band insulators (topological) – Haldane’s model induced by orbital angular momentum polarization.
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pxy-orbital: flat bands; interaction effects dominate.
p-orbital fermions in honeycomb lattices
C. Wu, D. Bergman, L. Balents, and S. Das Sarma, PRL 99, 70401 (2007).
cf. graphene: a surge of research interest; pz-orbital; Dirac cones.
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What is the fundamental difference from graphene?
• pz-orbital band is not a good system for orbital physics.
• However, in graphene, 2px and 2py are close to 2s, thus strong hybridization occurs.
• In optical lattices, px and py-orbital bands are well separated from s.
• It is the other two px and py orbitals that exhibit anisotropy and degeneracy.
1s
2s
2p1/r-like potential
s
p
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Honeycomb optical lattice with phase stability
• Three coherent laser beams polarizing in the z-direction.
G. Grynberg et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 2249 (1993).
• Laser phase drift only results an overall lattice translation without distorting the internal lattice structure.
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Artificial graphene in optical lattices
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• Band Hamiltonian (-bonding) for spin- polarized fermions.
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3p
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• If -bonding is included, the flat bands acquire small width at the order of . Realistic band structures show
Flat bands in the entire Brillouin zone!
• Flat band + Dirac cone.
• localized eigenstates.
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Hubbard model for spinless fermions: Exact solution: Wigner crystallization
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1n • Particle statistics is irrelevant. The result is also good for bosons, and Bose-Fermi mixtures.
• Close-packed hexagons; avoiding repulsion.
• The crystalline ordered state is stable even with small . t
gapped state
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int rnrnUHyx p
BArp
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Flat-band itinerant ferromagnetism (FM)
• FM requires strong enough repulsion and thus FM has no well-defined weak coupling picture.
• Flat-band ferromagnetism in the p-orbital honeycomb lattices.
• Interaction amplified by the divergence of DOS. Realization of FM with weak repulsive interactions in cold atom systems.
• It is commonly accepted that Hubbard-type models cannot give FM unless with flat band structure.
• In spite of its importance, FM has not been paid much attention in the cold atom community because strong repulsive interaction renders system unstable to the dimer-molecule formation.
Shizhong Zhang and C. Wu, arXiv:0805.3031.
A. Mielke and H. Tasaki, Comm. Math. Phys 158, 341 (1993).
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Px,y-orbital counterpart of graphene
• Band flatness and strong correlation effect.
(e.g. Wigner crystal, and flat band ferromagnetism.)C. Wu, and S. Das Sarma, PRB 77, 235107(2008); C. Wu et al, PRL 99, 67004(2007). Shizhong zhang and C. Wu, arXiv:0805.3031.
• Orbital exchange; from Kitaev to quantum 120 degree model.
C. Wu, PRL 100, 200406 (2008.
C. Wu, PRL 101, 186807 (2008).
• P-orbital band insulators (topological) – Haldane’s model induced by orbital angular momentum polarization.
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Topological insulators: Haldane’s QHE Model without Landau level
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• Honeycomb lattice with complex-valued next-nearest neighbor hopping.
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• Topological insulator at . Mass changes sign at K1,2.
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Rotate each site around its own center
N. Gemelke, Ph. D. thesis, Stanford
University, 2007.
• Phase modulation on laser beams: a fast overall oscillation of the lattice. Atoms cannot follow and feel a slightly distorted averaged potential.• The oscillation axis slowly precesses at the angular frequency of .)()()()({
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rLH
xyyAr
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Arzzmn
• Orbital Zeeman term.
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Large rotation angular velocity
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• Second order perturbation process generates the complex NNN hopping.
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Small rotation angular velocity 0
//3.0 t
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Berry curvature.
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Large rotation angular velocity
//2
3 t//3t
1C
1CBerry curvature.
1C
11
121
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Px,y-orbital counterpart of graphene
• Band flatness and strong correlation effect.
(e.g. Wigner crystal, and flat band ferromagnetism.)C. Wu, and S. Das Sarma, PRB 77, 235107(2008); C. Wu et al, PRL 99, 67004(2007). Shizhong zhang and C. Wu, arXiv:0805.3031.
• P-orbital Mott insulators: orbital exchange; from Kitaev to quantum 120 degree model.
C. Wu, PRL 100, 200406 (2008.
C. Wu, PRL 101, 186807 (2008).
• P-orbital band insulators (topological) – Haldane’s model induced by orbital angular momentum polarization.
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Mott-insulators with orbital degrees of freedom: orbital exchange of spinless fermion
• Pseudo-spin representation.
)(2
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2
12 xyyx pppp )(
23 xyyxi pppp
• No orbital-flip process. Antiferro-orbital Ising exchange.
UtJ /2 2
)ˆ()( 11 xrrJH ex 0J
0J
UtJ /2 2
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• For a bond along the general direction .
xp
: eigen-states of yxe 2sin2cosˆ2
e
2e
)ˆ)ˆ()(ˆ)(( 22 eererJH ex
Hexagon lattice: quantum model 120
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• After a suitable transformation, the Ising quantization axes can be chosen just as the three bond orientations.
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B
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312
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ypyx pp ,
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From the Kitaev model to 120 degree model
A B
B
B
xx yy
zz
• cf. Kitaev model: Ising quantization axes form an orthogonal triad.
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Large S picture: heavy-degeneracy of classic ground states
• Ground state constraint: the two -vectors have the same projection along the bond orientation.
or r
zrrrr
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,
• Ferro-orbital configurations.
• Oriented loop config: -vectors along the tangential directions.
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Heavy-degeneracy of classic ground states
• General loop configurations
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Global rotation degree of freedom
• Each loop config remains in the ground state manifold by a suitable arrangement of clockwise/anticlockwise rotation patterns.
• Starting from an oriented loop config with fixed loop locations but an arbitrary chirality distribution, we arrive at the same unoriented loop config by performing rotations with angles of .
150,90,30
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“Order from disorder”: 1/S orbital-wave correction
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Zero energy flat band orbital fluctuations
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• Each un-oriented loop has a local zero energy model up to the quadratic level.
• The above config. contains the maximal number of loops, thus is selected by quantum fluctuations at the 1/S level.
• Project under investigation: the quantum limit (s=1/2)? A very promising system to arrive at orbital liquid state?
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Summary
px,y-orbital counterpart of graphene: strong correlation from band flatness.
Topological insulator: quantum anomalous Hall effect.
orbital exchange: frustration, quantum 120 degree model.
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Orbital ordering with strong repulsions
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2
1n
• Various orbital ordering insulating states at commensurate fillings.
• Dimerization at <n>=1/2! Each dimer is an entangled state of empty and occupied states.