Spontaneous quantum Hall effect in an atomic spinor Bose-Fermi mixture.
Phys Rev Lett
; 114(12): 125303, 2015 Mar 27.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-25860754
ABSTRACT
We study a mixture of spin-1 bosonic and spin-1/2 fermionic cold atoms, e.g., ^{87}Rb and ^{6}Li, confined in a triangular optical lattice. With fermions at 3/4 filling, Fermi surface nesting leads to spontaneous formation of various spin textures of bosons in the ground state, such as collinear, coplanar, and even noncoplanar spin orders. The phase diagram is mapped out with varying boson tunneling and Bose-Fermi interactions. Most significantly, in one noncoplanar state the mixture is found to exhibit a spontaneous quantum Hall effect in fermions and crystalline superfluidity in bosons, both driven by interaction.
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01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Language:
En
Journal:
Phys Rev Lett
Year:
2015
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United States