Haldane phases with ultracold fermionic atoms in double-well optical lattices

P. Fromholz, S. Capponi, P. Lecheminant, D. J. Papoular, and K. Totsuka
Phys. Rev. B 99, 054414 – Published 15 February 2019
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Abstract

We propose to realize one-dimensional topological phases protected by SU(N) symmetry using alkali or alkaline-earth atoms loaded into a bichromatic optical lattice. We derive a realistic model for this system and investigate it theoretically. Depending on the parity of N, two different classes of symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases are stabilized at half-filling for physical parameters of the model. For even N, the celebrated spin-1 Haldane phase and its generalization to SU(N) are obtained with no local symmetry breaking. In stark contrast, at least for N=3, a new class of SPT phases, dubbed chiral Haldane phases, that spontaneously break inversion symmetry, emerges with a twofold ground-state degeneracy. The latter ground states with open-boundary conditions are characterized by different left and right boundary spins, which are related by conjugation. Our results show that topological phases are within close reach of the latest experiments on cold fermions in optical lattices.

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  • Received 12 October 2017
  • Revised 13 July 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.99.054414

©2019 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

Authors & Affiliations

P. Fromholz1, S. Capponi2, P. Lecheminant1, D. J. Papoular1, and K. Totsuka3

  • 1Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modélisation, CNRS UMR 8089, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, Site de Saint-Martin, F-95300 Cergy-Pontoise Cedex, France
  • 2Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, CNRS UMR 5152, Université Paul Sabatier, F-31062 Toulouse, France
  • 3Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa Oiwake-Cho, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan

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Vol. 99, Iss. 5 — 1 February 2019

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