Document Type

Article

Publication Date

September 2013

Publication Title

Physical Review B

Volume

88

Issue Number

12

First Page

125127-1

Last Page

125127-10

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevB.88.125127

Keywords

Finite, Temperature, Strongly, Correlated, Fermions

Disciplines

Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Physics

Abstract

We study finite-temperature properties of strongly interacting fermions in the honeycomb lattice using numerical linked-cluster expansions and determinantal quantum Monte Carlo simulations. We analyze a number of thermodynamic quantities, including the entropy, the specific heat, uniform and staggered spin susceptibilities, short-range spin correlations, and the double occupancy at and away from half filling. We examine the viability of adiabatic cooling by increasing the interaction strength for homogeneous as well as for trapped systems. For the homogeneous case, this process is found to be more efficient at finite doping than at half filling. That, in turn, leads to an efficient adiabatic cooling in the presence of a trap, which, starting with even relatively high entropies, can drive the system to have a Mott insulating phase with substantial antiferromagnetic correlations.

Comments

© 2013 American Physical Society DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.88.125127 Dr. Khatami was affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz at the time of publication.

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