Bose-Fermi mixtures: A long-standing debate resolved

22 October 2012

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The surprising experimental observation of a drastic influence of fermionic atoms on the Mott quantum-phase transition of bosonic atom was heavily discussed, as the standard Hubbard model predicts the opposite. We found that the secret lies within the interaction-induced tunneling mediated by the fermionic particles...

Phys. Rev. A 86, 043623 (2012), Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 135303 (2011),
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 030408 (2009), Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 050402 (2008)

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