Two-dimensional mixture of dipolar fermions: Equation of state and magnetic phases

We study a two-component mixture of fermionic dipoles in two dimensions at zero temperature, interacting via a purely repulsive 1/r3 potential. This model can be realized with ultracold atoms or molecules when their dipole moments are aligned in the confinement direction orthogonal to the plane.We c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Comparin, Tommaso, Bombín Escudero, Raul|||0000-0002-4553-1214, Holzmann, Markus, Mazzanti Castrillejo, Fernando Pablo|||0000-0001-6641-0609, Boronat Medico, Jordi|||0000-0002-0273-3457, Giorgini, Stefano
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/132955
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/132955
https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.99.043609
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Monte Carlo method
Fermions
Hubbard model
Hubbard, Model de
Montecarlo, Mètode de
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Física
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Sumario:We study a two-component mixture of fermionic dipoles in two dimensions at zero temperature, interacting via a purely repulsive 1/r3 potential. This model can be realized with ultracold atoms or molecules when their dipole moments are aligned in the confinement direction orthogonal to the plane.We characterize the unpolarized mixture by means of the diffusion Monte Carlo technique. Computing the equation of state, we identify the regime of validity for a mean-field theory based on a low-density expansion and compare our results with the hard-disk model of repulsive fermions. At high density, we address the possibility of itinerant ferromagnetism, namely, whether the ground state can be fully polarized in the fluid phase. Within the fixed-node approximation, we show that the accuracy of Jastrow-Slater trial wave functions, even with the typical two-body backflow correction, is not sufficient to resolve the relevant energy differences. By making use of the iterative-backflow improved trial wave functions, we observe no signature of a fully polarized ground state up to the freezing density.