Pomeranchuk cooling of SU(N) ultracold fermions in optical lattice

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Abstract

We investigate thermodynamic properties of a half-filled SU($2N$) Fermi-Hubbard model in two-dimensional square lattice using the determinantal Quantum Monte Carlo simulation. We address the question how the large number of hyperfine-spin components makes thermodynamic properties of SU($N$) ultracold fermions different from the conventional Hubbard model with $N$=2. Various thermodynamic quantities such as entropy, charge fluctuations, and spin correlations have been calculated. We devote special attention to the interaction-induced adiabatic cooling: an analogue of the Pomeranchuk effect in Helium-3.

*This work was supported by the NSF DMR-1105945 and the AFOSR-YIP program

Authors

  • Zi Cai

    • Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego
    • Department of physics, UCSD
  • Hsiang-Hsuan Hung

    • Department of physics, UCSD
  • Dong Zheng

    • Department of physics, Tsinghua University
  • Congjun Wu

    • Department of physics, UCSD