Published January 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Fermion-mediated long-range interactions of bosons in the one-dimensional Bose-Fermi-Hubbard model

  • 1. Fachbereich Physik and Research Center OPTIMAS, Technische Universitaet Kaiserslautern, D-67663 Kaiserslautern (Germany)

Description

The ground-state phase diagram of mixtures of spin polarized fermions and bosons in a 1D periodic lattice is discussed in the limit of large fermion hopping and half filling of the fermions. Numerical simulations performed with the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) show in addition to bosonic Mott insulating (MI), superfluid (SF), and charge density-wave phases (CDW) a yet unreported phase with spatial separation of MI and CDW regions. We derive an effective bosonic theory which allows for a complete understanding and quantitative prediction of the bosonic phase diagram. In particular the origin of CDW phase and the MI-CDW phase separation is revealed as an effective fermion-mediated long-range interaction between bosons with alternating sign.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
81
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 011603-011603.4
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

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