Critical entropies and magnetic-phase-diagram analysis of ultracold three-component fermionic mixtures in optical lattices

Magnetic ordering of three-component ultracold fermionic mixtures in optical lattices

We study finite-temperature magnetic phases of three-component mixtures of ultracold fermions with repulsive interactions in optical lattices with simple cubic or square geometry by means of dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT). We focus on the case of one particle per site (1/3 band filling) at moderate interaction strength, where we observe a sequence of thermal phase transitions into twoand th...

Pattern formation in mixtures of ultracold atoms in optical lattices.

Regular pattern formation is ubiquitous in nature; it occurs in biological, physical, and materials science systems. Here we propose a set of experiments with ultracold atoms that show how to examine different types of pattern formation. In particular, we show how one can see the analog of labyrinthine patterns (so-called quantum emulsions) in mixtures of light and heavy atoms (that tend to pha...

Phase diagram, extended domain walls, and soft collective modes in a three-component fermionic superfluid

We study the phase diagram of a three-component Fermi gas with weak attractive interactions, which shows three superfluid and one normal phases. At weak symmetry breaking between the components the existence of domain walls interpolating between two superfluids introduces a new length scale much larger than the coherence length of each superfluid. This, in particular, limits the applicability o...

Phase diagram of Bose-Fermi mixtures in one-dimensional optical lattices.

The ground state phase diagram of the one-dimensional Bose-Fermi Hubbard model is studied in the canonical ensemble using a quantum Monte Carlo method. We focus on the case where both species have half filling in order to maximize the pairing correlations between the bosons and the fermions. In case of equal hopping we distinguish among phase separation, a Luttinger liquid phase, and a phase ch...

Feshbach resonances in ultracold mixtures of the fermionic quantum gases