BCS-BEC Crossover on the Two-Dimensional Honeycomb Lattice
- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S-1A7 (Canada)
The attractive Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice exhibits, at half filling, a quantum critical point between a semimetal with massless Dirac fermions and an s-wave superconductor (SC). We study the BCS-BEC crossover in this model away from half filling at zero temperature and show that the appropriately defined crossover line (in the interaction-density plane) passes through the quantum critical point at half filling. For a range of densities around half filling, the 'underlying Fermi surface' of the SC, defined as the momentum space locus of minimum energy quasiparticle excitations, encloses an area which changes nonmonotonically with interaction. We also study fluctuations in the SC and the semimetal, and show the emergence of an undamped Leggett mode deep in the SC. Finally, we consider possible implications for ultracold atoms in optical lattices and the high temperature SCs.
- OSTI ID:
- 20861444
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 97, Issue 23; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.230404; (c) 2006 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0031-9007
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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