Mixtures of ultracold atomic gases in optical lattices with nonzero pair or counterflow hopping

Abstract

We study the critical behavior of a mixture of two species of lattice bosons described by the extended Bose–Hubbard model. Our goal is to analyze in which conditions exotic orderings like pair superfluid or counterflow superfluid could be detected. We use a numerical method based on mean field approximation to calculate the phase diagram of the system, along with particle density, and order parameter profiles in selected multicritical points. We observe that the phase diagram becomes significantly renormalized in the presence of pair flow or counterflow. Furthermore, a critical particle density emerges, which isolates a new region of the phase diagram, in which the exotic order parameter exists for any value of single-particle hopping.