arXiv:1703.07222 · Physical Review A
Quantum Hall phase diagram of two-component Bose gases: Intercomponent entanglement and pseudopotentials
Shunsuke Furukawa, Masahito Ueda
Abstract
We study the ground-state phase diagram of two-dimensional two-component (or pseudospin-$\frac{1}{2}$) Bose gases in a high synthetic magnetic field in the space of the total filling factor and the ratio of the intercomponent coupling ${g}_{\ensuremath{\uparrow}\ensuremath{\downarrow}}$ to the intracomponent one $g>0$. Using exact diagonalization, we find that when the intercomponent coupling is attractive (${g}_{\ensuremath{\uparrow}\ensuremath{\downarrow}}<0$), the product states of a pair of nearly uncorrelated quantum Hall states are remarkably robust and persist even when $|{g}_{\ensuremath{\uparrow}\ensuremath{\downarrow}}|$ is close to $g$. This contrasts with the case of an intercomponent repulsion, where a variety of spin-singlet quantum Hall states with high intercomponent entanglement emerge for ${g}_{\ensuremath{\uparrow}\ensuremath{\downarrow}}\ensuremath{\approx}g$. We interpret this marked dependence on the sign of ${g}_{\ensuremath{\uparrow}\ensuremath{\downarrow}}$ in light of pseudopotentials on a sphere, and also explain recent numerical results in two-component Bose gases in mutually antiparallel magnetic fields where a qualitatively opposite dependence on the sign of ${g}_{\ensuremath{\uparrow}\ensuremath{\downarrow}}$ is found. Our results thus unveil an intriguing connection between multicomponent quantum Hall systems and quantum spin Hall systems in minimal setups.