Bose-Fermi mixtures of self-assembled filaments of fermionic polar molecules

M. Klawunn, J. Duhme, and L. Santos
Phys. Rev. A 81, 013604 – Published 6 January 2010

Abstract

Fermionic polar molecules in deep one-dimensional (1D) optical lattices may form self-assembled filaments when the electric dipoles are oriented along the lattice axis. These composites are bosons or fermions depending on the number of molecules per chain, leading to a peculiar and complex Bose-Fermi mixture, which we discuss in detail for the simplest case of a three-well potential. We show that the interplay among filament binding energy, transverse filament modes, and trimer Fermi energy leads to a rich variety of possible scenarios ranging from a degenerate Fermi gas of trimers to a binary mixture of two different types of bosonic dimers. We study the intriguing zero-temperature and finite-temperature physics of these composites for the particular case of an ideal filament gas loaded in 1D sites, and we discuss possible methods to probe these chain mixtures.

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  • Received 29 July 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.81.013604

©2010 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

M. Klawunn, J. Duhme, and L. Santos

  • Institut für Theoretische Physik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany

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Vol. 81, Iss. 1 — January 2010

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