Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review Research Année : 2025

Polarons and dimerons in the two-dimensional attractive Hubbard model

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A two-dimensional (2D) spin-up ideal Fermi gas interacting attractively with a spin-down impurity in the continuum undergoes, at zero temperature, a first-order phase transition from a polaron to a dimeron state. Here, we study a similar system on a square lattice, by considering the attractive 2D Fermi-Hubbard model with a single spin-down and a finite filling fraction of spin-up fermions. We study polaron and dimeron quasiparticle properties via variational ansatz up to one particle-hole excitation. Moreover, we develop a determinant diagrammatic Monte Carlo algorithm for this problem based on expansion in bare on-site coupling U . This algorithm turns out to be sign-problem-free at any filling of spin-up fermions, allowing one to sample very high diagram order (larger than 200 in our study) and to do simulations for large U/t (we go up to U/t = -20 with t the hopping strength). Both methods give qualitatively consistent results. With variational ansatz we go to even larger on-site attraction. At very low spin-up filling fraction, we observe the polaron-to-dimeron transition, in agreement with the continuum case. Upon increasing the filling fraction, however, the transition shifts to higher values of |U |/t and the transition disappears beyond a filling fraction of about 20%. In this region, the polaron state always gives a lower energy and has a finite quasiparticle residue. Our findings are directly relevant to cold atom experiments with 2D optical lattices: A small and finite density of spin-down impurities in the ground state will form a superfluid at strong coupling at low spin-up filling fraction. Above some critical spin-up filling fraction, the system is expected to remain a normal Fermi liquid, even in the strong-coupling limit.

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Cite 10.5281/zenodo.17358036 Jeu de données Pascual, G., Boronat, J., & Van Houcke, K. (2025). Dataset for ‘On polarons and dimerons in the two-dimensional attractive Hubbard model’ [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.17358036

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hal-05596696 , version 1 (20-04-2026)

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G Pascual, J Boronat, K van Houcke. Polarons and dimerons in the two-dimensional attractive Hubbard model. Physical Review Research, 2025, 7 (4), pp.L042024. ⟨10.1103/kjcv-919d⟩. ⟨hal-05596696⟩
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