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The phase diagram of one-dimensional alkaline-earth fermionic atoms and ytterbium 171 atoms is investigated by means of a low-energy approach and density-matrix renormalization group calculations. For incommensurate filling, four gapless phases with a spin gap are found and consist of two superconducting instabilities and two coexisting bond and charge density-waves instabilities. In the half-filled case, seven Mott-insulating phases arise with the emergence of four non-degenerate phases with exotic hidden orderings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The zero-temperature phase diagram of a p-orbital two-component fermionic system loaded into a one-dimensional optical lattice is mapped out by means of analytical and numerical techniques. It is shown that the p-band model away from half-filling hosts various competing superconducting phases for attractive and repulsive interactions. At quarter-filling, we analyze the possible formation of incompressible Mott phases and in particular for repulsive interactions, we find the occurrence of a Mott transition with the formation of fully gapped bond-ordering waves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We investigate possible realizations of exotic SU(N) symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases with alkaline-earth cold fermionic atoms loaded into one-dimensional optical lattices. A thorough study of two-orbital generalizations of the standard SU(N) Fermi-Hubbard model, directly relevant to recent experiments, is performed. Using state-of-the-art analytical and numerical techniques, we map out the zero-temperature phase diagrams at half-filling and identify several Mott-insulating phases. While some of them are rather conventional (nondegenerate, charge-density wave, or spin-Peierls-like), we also identify, for even N, two distinct types of SPT phases: an orbital Haldane phase, analogous to a spin-N/2 Haldane phase, and a topological SU(N) phase, which we fully characterize by its entanglement properties. We also propose sets of nonlocal order parameters that characterize the SU(N) topological phases found here. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]