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Anisotropic honeycomb lattice with a magnetic field: this model allows us to interpolate between the honeycomb lattice and the π-flux square lattice model

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posted on 2013-06-24, 00:00 authored by G Mazzucchi, L Lepori, A Trombettoni

Figure 4. Anisotropic honeycomb lattice with a magnetic field: this model allows us to interpolate between the honeycomb lattice and the π-flux square lattice model. Primitive lattice vectors are shown for θ = π/3. Hopping amplitudes on bonds on top, central and bottom red lines have phase π.

Abstract

We study the superfluid properties of attractively interacting fermions hopping in a family of 2D and 3D lattices in the presence of synthetic gauge fields having π-flux per plaquette. The reason for such a choice is that the π-flux cubic lattice displays Dirac points and that decreasing the hopping coefficient in a spatial direction (say, tz), these Dirac points are unaltered: it is then possible to study the 3D–2D interpolation towards the π-flux square lattice. We also consider the lattice configuration providing the continuous interpolation between the 2D π-flux square lattice and the honeycomb geometry. We investigate by a mean-field analysis the effects of interaction and dimensionality on the superfluid gap, chemical potential and critical temperature, showing that these quantities continuously vary along the patterns of interpolation. In the two-dimensional cases at zero temperature and half-filling, there is a quantum phase transition occurring at a critical (negative) interaction Uc presenting a linear critical exponent for the gap as a function of |UUc|. We show that in three dimensions, this quantum phase transition is again retrieved, pointing out that the critical exponent for the gap changes from 1 to 1/2 for each finite value of tz.

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