How the effective boson-boson interaction works in Bose-Fermi mixtures in periodic geometries

Abstract

We study mixtures of spinless bosons and not spin-polarized fermions loaded in two dimensional optical lattices. We approach the problem of the ground state stability within the framework of the linear response theory; by the mean of an iterative procedure, we are able to obtain a relation for the dependence of boson-boson effective interaction on the absolute temperature of the sample. Proceeding from such a formula, we write down analyitical expressions for Supersolid (SS) and Phase Separation (PS) transition temperatures, and plot the phase diagrams.