1. Orbital phases of $p$-band ultracold fermions in the frustrated triangular lattice
- Author
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Wu, Jiaqi, Tan, Hui, Cao, Rui, Yuan, Jianmin, and Li, Yongqiang
- Subjects
Condensed Matter - Quantum Gases ,Quantum Physics - Abstract
Orbital degrees of freedom play an important role for understanding the emergence of unconventional quantum phases. Ultracold atomic gases in optical lattices provide a wonderful platform to simulate orbital physics. In this work, we consider spinless fermionic atoms loaded into $p$-orbital bands of a two-dimensional frustrated triangular lattice. The system can be described by an extended Fermi-Hubbard model, which is numerically solved by using the orbital version of real-space dynamical mean-field theory. Low-temperature phase diagrams are obtained, which contain stripe-, ferro- and para-orbital ordered quantum phases, due to the interplay of anisotropic hoppings and geometrical frustration. In order to understand the underlying mechanics of competing orbital orders, we derive an effective orbital-exchange model, which yields consistent explanation with our main numerical results., Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures
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- 2024