title: High-temperature superfluidity of fermionic atoms in optical lattices.
abstract: Fermionic atoms confined in a potential created by standing wave light can undergo a phase transition to a superfluid state at a dramatically increased transition temperature. Depending upon carefully controlled parameters, a transition to a superfluid state of Cooper pairs, antiferromagnetic states or d-wave pairing states can be induced and probed under realistic experimental conditions. We describe an atomic physics experiment that can provide critical insight into the origin of high-temperature superconductivity in cuprates.
authors.affiliation: Physics Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hofstetter
authors.forename: J I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Cirac
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zoller
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Demler
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Lukin