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Thermoelectric Properties of Fe0.2Co3.8Sb12-xTex ... - Physics

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Superfluidity in Bricks!<br />

Arijit Haldar and Vijay B. Shenoy<br />

Centre for Condensed Matter Theory<br />

Indian Institute <strong>of</strong> Science, Bangalore 560 012<br />

An optical brick lattice has recently be realized by the ETH group. We show<br />

that this systems <strong>of</strong>fers the possibility <strong>of</strong> realizing a superfluid state <strong>of</strong> fermions with a<br />

high transition temperature. The brick lattice defined by three hopping parameters, in<br />

a regime, has a band gap. Exploiting this, we propose to the band insulator obtained<br />

in this regime to beat the entropy problem, to obtain an optical lattice superfluid by<br />

tuning an attractive interaction between the fermions. By studying the quantum field<br />

theory <strong>of</strong> the system including Gaussian fluctuations, we estimate the Kosterlitz-<br />

Thouless transition temperature <strong>of</strong> the system. We find that in a regime <strong>of</strong> parameters<br />

the transition temperature is “ high” , i.e., <strong>of</strong> the order <strong>of</strong> the hopping scale.<br />

See also: Related poster by Yogeshwar Prasad et al.

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