Correlated Chern insulators in two-dimensional Raman lattices: a cold-atom regularization of strongly-coupled four-Fermi field theories

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08744v1
• Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:20:03 GMT
• Title: Correlated Chern insulators in two-dimensional Raman lattices: a cold-atom regularization of strongly-coupled four-Fermi field theories
• Authors: L. Ziegler, E. Tirrito, M. Lewenstein, S. Hands, and A. Bermudez
• Abstract summary: We show that ultra-cold atoms with synthetic spin-orbit coupling in Raman lattices can be used as versatile quantum simulators. We exploit this multidisciplinary perspective to explore the connections between correlated Chern insulators and strongly-coupled four-Fermi field theories.
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• Abstract: We show that ultra-cold atoms with synthetic spin-orbit coupling in Raman lattices can be used as versatile quantum simulators to explore the connections between correlated Chern insulators and strongly-coupled four-Fermi field theories related to the Gross-Neveu model in (2+1) dimensions. Exploiting this multidisciplinary perspective, we identify a large-$N$ quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect in absence of any external magnetic field, and use it to delimit regions in parameter space where these correlated topological phases appear, the boundaries of which are controlled by strongly-coupled fixed points of the four-Fermi relativistic field theory. We further show how, for strong interactions, the QAH effect gives way to magnetic phases described by a two-dimensional quantum compass model in a transverse field. We present a detailed description of the phase diagram using the large-$N$ effective potential, and variational techniques such as projected entangled pairs.

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