2008/02/01 by H. Heiselberg, Henning Heiselberg, Heiselberg, Henning
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el) #Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con) #cond-mat.str-el #cond-mat.supr-con
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0802.0127
8 pages, 3 figures
arxiv created 2008/02/01 · openalex publication_date 2008/02/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Fermionic atoms in 2D optical lattices and electrons in HTc cuprates may both be described by the Hubbard model. However, if Coulomb frustration is responsible for the striped phases in 2D cuprates the phase diagrams will differ markedly. Two representative scenarios are described by a simple stripe model without phase separation and a mean field model with phase separation in the absence of Coulomb frustration. When Coulomb frustrated both models display antiferromagnetism (AF) and stripe phases with d-wave superfluidity, whereas neutral atoms in optical lattices will only do so in the stripe model. Radii and densities of the various phases in harmonically confined optical lattices are calculated for the two models and have very different Mott plateaus and density discontinuities. We discuss observation of antiferromagnetic, stripe and superfluid phases in density and momentum distributions and correlations from time-of-flight experiments.