2015/09/30 by Sylvain Capponi, S. Capponi, P. Lecheminant +1 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Condensed matter physics #Geometry #Homogeneous space #Phase (matter) #Phase diagram #Physics #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum mechanics #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #Superfluidity #Symmetry (geometry) #Topology (electrical circuits) #Ultracold atom #cond-mat.quant-gas
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.aop.2016.01.011
published as Ann.Phys. 367, 50 (2016) · 59 pages, 20 figures. Review article published in Annals of Physics. Some minor errors fixed
openalex publication_date 2016/01/25 · arxiv created 2016/02/28 · arxiv updated 2016/03/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Alkaline-earth and ytterbium cold atomic gases make it possible to simulate SU(N)-symmetric fermionic systems in a very controlled fashion. Such a high symmetry is expected to give rise to a variety of novel phenomena ranging from molecular Luttinger liquids to (symmetry- protected) topological phases. We review some of the phases that can be stabilized in a one dimensional lattice. The physics of this multicomponent Fermi gas turns out to be much richer and more exotic than in the standard SU(2) case. For N > 2, the phase diagram is quite rich already in the case of the single-band model, including a molecular Luttinger liquid (with dominant superfluid instability in the N-particle channel) for incommensurate fillings, as well as various Mott-insulating phases occurring at commensurate fillings. Particular attention will be paid to the cases with additional orbital degree of freedom (which is accessible experimentally either by taking into account two atomic states or by putting atoms in the p-band levels). We introduce two microscopic models which are relevant for these cases and discuss their symmetries and strong coupling limits. More intriguing phase diagrams are then presented including, for instance, symmetry protected topological phases characterized by non-trivial edge states.