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Trapping and cooling fermionic atoms into the Mott and Neel states

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 نشر من قبل Lorenzo De Leo
 تاريخ النشر 2009
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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We perform a theoretical study of a fermionic gas with two hyperfine states confined to an optical lattice. We derive a generic state diagram as a function of interaction strength, particle number, and confining potential. We discuss the central density, the double occupancy and their derivatives as probes for the Mott state, connecting our findings to the recent experiment of Jordens et al. Using entropic arguments we compare two different strategies to reach the antiferromagnetic state in the presence of a trapping potential.

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