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TT 32: MLT: Quantum Liquids, Bose-Einstein Condensates, Ultra-cold Atoms, ... 2
TT 32.6: Talk
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 15:30–15:45, H18
Resonant Superfluidity in an Optical Lattic — •Irakli Titvinidze1, Michiel Snoek2, and Walter Hofstetter1 — 1Institut für Theoretische Physik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany — 2Institute for Theoretical Physics, Valckenierstraat 65, 1018 XE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
We study a system of ultracold fermionic Potassium (40K) atoms in a three-dimensional optical lattice in the neighborhood of an s-wave Feshbach resonance. Close to resonance, the system is described by a multi-band Bose-Fermi Hubbard Hamiltonian. We derive an effective lowest-band Hamiltonian in which the effect of the higher band is incorporated by a self-consistent mean-field approximation. The resulting model is solved by means of Generalized Dynamical Mean-Field Theory [1,2]. In addition to the BEC/BCS crossover we find on the BCS side of the resonance a phase transition to a fermionic Mott insulator at half filling, induced by the repulsive fermionic background scattering length. We also calculate the critical temperature of the BEC/BCS-state across the resonance and find it to be minimal at resonance.