Realizing multi-orbital Emery models with ultracold atoms

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22955v1
• Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:58:46 GMT
• Title: Realizing multi-orbital Emery models with ultracold atoms
• Abstract summary: We propose an optical superlattice architecture that implements the three-band Emery model with ultracold fermions.<n>By combining lattice beams with controllable interference, we engineer orbital degrees of freedom that reproduce key features of the cuprate band structure.<n>We show that single-particle quantum walks can benchmark the resulting tight-binding model.
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• Abstract: Strongly-correlated electrons in transition-metal oxides give rise to intriguing emergent phenomena, including high-temperature superconductivity in cuprates. While simplified one-band Hubbard models capture some aspects, explicitly describing the interplay of copper and oxygen orbitals -- as in the three-band Emery model -- is essential to capture the full phenomenology of cuprates. Quantum simulators based on ultracold atoms offer a promising route to study such systems in a controlled setting, but realizing realistic multi-orbital Hubbard models remains challenging. Here we propose an optical superlattice architecture that implements the three-band Emery model with ultracold fermions. By combining lattice beams with controllable interference, we engineer orbital degrees of freedom that reproduce key features of the cuprate band structure, while enabling independent control of orbital-dependent interactions and charge-transfer energy. We show that single-particle quantum walks can benchmark the resulting tight-binding model. Using determinant quantum Monte Carlo, we further investigate thermodynamic properties in the undoped regime and find a finite-temperature metal-insulator crossover accompanied by the onset of antiferromagnetic correlations accessible in current experiments. Finally, we apply a Hamiltonian learning protocol enabling to infer effective single-band Hubbard models from experimental realizations of Emery models. Our results provide a practical pathway to simulate multi-orbital Hubbard physics with quantum gas microscopes.

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