Mott-insulator transition for ultracold fermions in two-dimensional optical lattices

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Goldman, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; DENSITY (OPTICAL); FERMI LEVEL; HUBBARD MODEL;

MOTT-INSULATORS; OPTICAL LATTICES; ULTRACOLD FERMIONS;

FERMIONS;

EID: 43849108422     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.053406     Document Type: Article

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