Finite-temperature properties of strongly correlated fermions in the honeycomb lattice

Baoming Tang, Thereza Paiva, Ehsan Khatami, and Marcos Rigol
Phys. Rev. B 88, 125127 – Published 18 September 2013

Abstract

We study finite-temperature properties of strongly interacting fermions in the honeycomb lattice using numerical linked-cluster expansions and determinantal quantum Monte Carlo simulations. We analyze a number of thermodynamic quantities, including the entropy, the specific heat, uniform and staggered spin susceptibilities, short-range spin correlations, and the double occupancy at and away from half filling. We examine the viability of adiabatic cooling by increasing the interaction strength for homogeneous as well as for trapped systems. For the homogeneous case, this process is found to be more efficient at finite doping than at half filling. That, in turn, leads to an efficient adiabatic cooling in the presence of a trap, which, starting with even relatively high entropies, can drive the system to have a Mott insulating phase with substantial antiferromagnetic correlations.

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  • Received 5 July 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.88.125127

©2013 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Baoming Tang1,2, Thereza Paiva3, Ehsan Khatami4, and Marcos Rigol1

  • 1Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
  • 2Department of Physics, Georgetown University, Washington DC, 20057 USA
  • 3Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Cx.P. 68.528, 21941-972 Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil
  • 4Physics Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA

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Vol. 88, Iss. 12 — 15 September 2013

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