Superconductor-Insulator Transition and Fermi-Bose Crossovers
Abstract
The direct transition from an insulator to a superconductor (SC) in Fermi systems is a problem of long-standing interest, which necessarily goes beyond the standard BCS paradigm of superconductivity as a Fermi surface instability. We introduce here a simple, translationally invariant lattice fermion model that undergoes a SC-insulator transition (SIT) and elucidate its properties using analytical methods and quantum Monte Carlo simulations. We show that there is a fermionic band insulator to bosonic insulator crossover in the insulating phase and a BCS-to-BEC crossover in the SC. The SIT is always found to be from a bosonic insulator to a BEC-like SC, with an energy gap for fermions that remains finite across the SIT. Hence, the energy scales that go critical at the SIT are the gap to pair excitations in the insulator and the superfluid stiffness in the SC. In addition to giving insight into important questions about the SIT in solid-state systems, our model should be experimentally realizable using ultracold fermions in optical lattices.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE; National Science Foundation (NSF); UC Office of the President
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1254897
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1280978
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-07ER46423; AC52-07NA27344; 15-ERD-013
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review. X
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Physical Review. X Journal Volume: 6 Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 2160-3308
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; quantum monte-carlo; hubbard-model; einstein condensation; ultracold atoms; mott insulator; lattice; physics; superfluid; excitons; systems
Citation Formats
Loh, Yen Lee, Randeria, Mohit, Trivedi, Nandini, Chang, Chia-Chen, and Scalettar, Richard. Superconductor-Insulator Transition and Fermi-Bose Crossovers. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.6.021029.
Loh, Yen Lee, Randeria, Mohit, Trivedi, Nandini, Chang, Chia-Chen, & Scalettar, Richard. Superconductor-Insulator Transition and Fermi-Bose Crossovers. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.6.021029
Loh, Yen Lee, Randeria, Mohit, Trivedi, Nandini, Chang, Chia-Chen, and Scalettar, Richard. Tue .
"Superconductor-Insulator Transition and Fermi-Bose Crossovers". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.6.021029.
@article{osti_1254897,
title = {Superconductor-Insulator Transition and Fermi-Bose Crossovers},
author = {Loh, Yen Lee and Randeria, Mohit and Trivedi, Nandini and Chang, Chia-Chen and Scalettar, Richard},
abstractNote = {The direct transition from an insulator to a superconductor (SC) in Fermi systems is a problem of long-standing interest, which necessarily goes beyond the standard BCS paradigm of superconductivity as a Fermi surface instability. We introduce here a simple, translationally invariant lattice fermion model that undergoes a SC-insulator transition (SIT) and elucidate its properties using analytical methods and quantum Monte Carlo simulations. We show that there is a fermionic band insulator to bosonic insulator crossover in the insulating phase and a BCS-to-BEC crossover in the SC. The SIT is always found to be from a bosonic insulator to a BEC-like SC, with an energy gap for fermions that remains finite across the SIT. Hence, the energy scales that go critical at the SIT are the gap to pair excitations in the insulator and the superfluid stiffness in the SC. In addition to giving insight into important questions about the SIT in solid-state systems, our model should be experimentally realizable using ultracold fermions in optical lattices.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevX.6.021029},
journal = {Physical Review. X},
number = 2,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue May 31 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Tue May 31 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.6.021029
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