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arXiv:1008.2945 · New Journal of Physics

Complete devil's staircase and crystal–superfluid transitions in a dipolarXXZspin chain: a trapped ion quantum simulation

Philipp Hauke, Fernando Cucchietti, Alexander Müller‐Hermes, Mari Carmen Bañuls, J. I. Cirac, Maciej Lewenstein

Published Nov 19, 2010• 81 citations
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Abstract

Systems with long-range interactions show a variety of intriguing properties: they typically accommodate many metastable states, they can give rise to spontaneous formation of supersolids, and they can lead to counterintuitive thermodynamic behavior. However, the increased complexity that comes with long-range interactions strongly hinders theoretical studies. This makes a quantum simulator for long-range models highly desirable. Here, we show that a chain of trapped ions can be used to quantum simulate a one-dimensional (1D) model of hard-core bosons with dipolar off-site interaction and tunneling, equivalent to a dipolar XXZ spin-1/2 chain. We explore the rich phase diagram of this model in detail, employing perturbative mean-field theory, exact diagonalization and quasi-exact numerical techniques (density-matrix renormalization group and infinite time-evolving block decimation). We find that the complete devil's staircase—an infinite sequence of crystal states existing at vanishing tunneling—spreads to a succession of lobes similar to the Mott lobes found in Bose–Hubbard models. Investigating the melting of these crystal states at increased tunneling, we do not find (contrary to similar 2D models) clear indications of supersolid behavior in the region around the melting transition. However, we find that inside the insulating lobes there are quasi-long-range (algebraic) correlations, as opposed to models with nearest-neighbor tunneling, that show exponential decay of correlations.

DOI
10.1088/1367-2630/12/11/113037

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We consider a single-component gas of dipolar bosons confined in a one-dimensional optical lattice, where the dipoles are aligned such that the long-ranged dipolar interactions are maximally repulsive. In the limit of zero inter-site hopping and sufficiently large on-site interaction, the phase diagram is a complete devil's staircase for filling fractions between 0 and 1: every commensurate state at a rational filling is stable over a finite interval in chemical potential, and for every chemical potential the system is in a gapped commensurate phase. We perturb away from this limit in two experimentally motivated directions involving the addition of hopping and a reduction of the onsite interaction. The addition of hopping alone yields a phase diagram, which we compute in perturbation theory in the hopping, where the commensurate Mott phases now compete with the superfluid. We capture the physics of the Mott-superfluid phase transitions via bosonization. In a finite trap, we argue using an LDA and simulated annealing that this results in regions of commensurate states separated by patches with dominant superfluid correlations. Further softening of the onsite interaction yields alternative commensurate states with double occupancies which can form a devil's staircase of their own; we describe these states and discuss the possible transitions between them. Adding a hopping term in this case produces one-dimensional "supersolids" which simultaneously exhibit discrete broken symmetries and superfluidity. The contents of this work was first published as a chapter in the doctoral thesis `On Exotic Orders in Strongly Correlated Systems' (Princeton University, 09/09, supervised by S. L. Sondhi), and constitutes a considerably more detailed version of [PRB 80: 174519 (2009)].
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We analyse the ground-state quantum phase diagram of hardcore Bosons interacting with repulsive dipolar potentials. The bosons dynamics is described by the extended-Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian on a two-dimensional lattice. The ground state results from the interplay between the lattice geometry and the long-range interactions, which we account for by means of a classical spin mean-field approach limited by the size of the considered unit cells. This extended classical spin mean-field theory accounts for the long-range density-density interaction without truncation. We consider three different lattice geometries: square, honeycomb, and triangular. In the limit of zero hopping the ground state is always a devil’s staircase of solid (gapped) phases. Such crystalline phases with broken translational symmetry are robust with respect to finite hopping amplitudes. At intermediate hopping amplitudes, these gapped phases melt, giving rise to various lattice supersolid phases, which can have exotic features with multiple sublattice densities. At sufficiently large hoppings the ground state is a superfluid. The stability of phases predicted by our approach is gauged by comparison to the known quantum phase diagrams of the Bose-Hubbard model with nearest-neighbour interactions as well as quantum Monte Carlo simulations for the dipolar case on the square and triangular lattice. Our results are of immediate relevance for experimental realisations of self-organised crystalline ordering patterns in analogue quantum simulators, e.g., with ultracold dipolar atoms in an optical lattice.
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