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  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Ultracold Atomic Gases
  • Quantum Many-Body Physics

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  • Persistent currents are equilibrium currents in isolated systems, previously studied in metals.
  • Recent experiments generate atomic persistent currents in ultracold gases, necessitating new theoretical approaches.
  • Understanding persistent currents in interacting systems at finite temperatures remains a challenge.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate persistent currents in the fermionic one-dimensional Hubbard model at strong interaction limits.
  • Explore the influence of temperature on persistent current properties.
  • Identify phenomena missed by single-particle and Luttinger liquid theories.

Main Methods:

  • Theoretical analysis of the fermionic one-dimensional Hubbard model.
  • Focus on the strongly interacting regime.
  • Examination of temperature and polarization effects on persistent currents.

Main Results:

  • Observed temperature-driven changes in the flux period and sign (diamagnetic/paramagnetic) of persistent currents.
  • Demonstrated counterintuitive increase in current magnitude with temperature.
  • Identified varying decay rates of current based on system polarization.

Conclusions:

  • Strongly interacting multicomponent systems exhibit unique persistent current properties not captured by conventional methods.
  • Findings are crucial for interpreting experiments on persistent currents in ultracold atomic gases.
  • Highlights the limitations of single-particle and Luttinger liquid approximations for these systems.