TY - JOUR T1 - Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov pairing in one-dimensional optical lattices JF - Phys. Rev. B 77 (2008) 245105 Y1 - 2008 A1 - Matteo Rizzi A1 - Marco Polini A1 - Miguel A. Cazalilla A1 - M.R. Bakhtiari A1 - Mario P. Tosi A1 - Rosario Fazio AB -

Spin-polarized attractive Fermi gases in one-dimensional (1D) optical lattices are expected to be remarkably good candidates for the observation of the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) phase. We model these systems with an attractive Hubbard model with population imbalance. By means of the density-matrix renormalization-group method we compute the pairing correlations as well as the static spin and charge structure factors in the whole range from weak to strong coupling. We demonstrate that pairing correlations exhibit quasi-long range order and oscillations at the wave number expected from FFLO theory. However, we also show by numerically computing the mixed spin-charge static structure factor that charge and spin degrees of freedom appear to be coupled already for small imbalance. We discuss the consequences of this coupling for the observation of the FFLO phase, as well as for the stabilization of the quasi-long range order into long-range order by coupling many identical 1D systems, as in quasi-1D optical lattices.

UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2694 U1 - 1406 U2 - Physics U3 - Condensed Matter Theory ER -