Direct Probing of the Mott Crossover in the SU(N) Fermi-Hubbard Model

We report on a detailed experimental investigation of the equation of state (EoS) of the three-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard model (FHM) in its generalized SU(N)-symmetric form, using a degenerate ytterbium gas in an optical lattice. In its more common spin-1/2 form, the FHM is a central model of conden...

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Main Authors: Christian Hofrichter, Luis Riegger, Francesco Scazza, Moritz Höfer, Diogo Rio Fernandes, Immanuel Bloch, Simon Fölling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2016-06-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.6.021030