Density functional theory versus quantum Monte Carlo simulations of Fermi gases in the optical-lattice arena

Sebastiano Pilati (), Ilia Zintchenko, Matthias Troyer and Francesco Ancilotto
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Sebastiano Pilati: Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “Galileo Galilei”, Università di Padova
Ilia Zintchenko: Theoretische Physik, ETH Zurich
Matthias Troyer: Theoretische Physik, ETH Zurich
Francesco Ancilotto: Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “Galileo Galilei”, Università di Padova

The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, 2018, vol. 91, issue 4, 1-8

Abstract: Abstract We benchmark the ground state energies and the density profiles of atomic repulsive Fermi gases in optical lattices (OLs) computed via density functional theory (DFT) against the results of diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) simulations. The main focus is on a half-filled one-dimensional OLs, for which the DMC simulations performed within the fixed-node approach provide unbiased results. This allows us to demonstrate that the local spin-density approximation (LSDA) to the exchange-correlation functional of DFT is very accurate in the weak and intermediate interactions regime, and also to underline its limitations close to the strongly-interacting Tonks–Girardeau limit and in very deep OLs. We also consider a three-dimensional OL at quarter filling, showing also in this case the high accuracy of the LSDA in the moderate interaction regime. The one-dimensional data provided in this study may represent a useful benchmark to further develop DFT methods beyond the LSDA and they will hopefully motivate experimental studies to accurately measure the equation of state of Fermi gases in higher-dimensional geometries.

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Date: 2018
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