We study a model of an equal mixture of two species of fermions in a deep optical lattice at a filling of two fermions per site. At weak interspecies interaction, the system is a band insulator. When the interspecies interaction is tuned via a Feshbach resonance to be larger than an energy related to the energy separation of the first and second Bloch bands, atoms populate equally the two Bloch bands. With weak tunneling between sites of the optical lattice, the system becomes a Mott insulator with the low-energy effective Hamiltonian of a spin-1 Heisenberg antiferromagnet, because of a Hund's-rule-like coupling between the two bands. We discuss experimental signatures of these two types of insulators.
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