Observation of spatial charge and spin correlations in the 2D Fermi-Hubbard model

  • Lawrence W. Cheuk
    Department of Physics, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
  • Matthew A. Nichols
    Department of Physics, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
  • Katherine R. Lawrence
    Department of Physics, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
  • Melih Okan
    Department of Physics, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
  • Hao Zhang
    Department of Physics, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
  • Ehsan Khatami
    Department of Physics and Astronomy, San José State University, San José, CA 95192, USA.
  • Nandini Trivedi
    Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
  • Thereza Paiva
    Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68.528, 21941-972 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
  • Marcos Rigol
    Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
  • Martin W. Zwierlein
    Department of Physics, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

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公開日
2016-09-16
DOI
  • 10.1126/science.aag3349
公開者
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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<jats:p>Strong electron correlations lie at the origin of high-temperature superconductivity. Its essence is believed to be captured by the Fermi-Hubbard model of repulsively interacting fermions on a lattice. Here we report on the site-resolved observation of charge and spin correlations in the two-dimensional (2D) Fermi-Hubbard model realized with ultracold atoms. Antiferromagnetic spin correlations are maximal at half-filling and weaken monotonically upon doping. At large doping, nearest-neighbor correlations between singly charged sites are negative, revealing the formation of a correlation hole, the suppressed probability of finding two fermions near each other. As the doping is reduced, the correlations become positive, signaling strong bunching of doublons and holes, in agreement with numerical calculations. The dynamics of the doublon-hole correlations should play an important role for transport in the Fermi-Hubbard model.</jats:p>

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  • Science

    Science 353 (6305), 1260-1264, 2016-09-16

    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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