arXiv:1703.09868 · Journal of the Korean Physical Society
Directional Current-current Correlation Functions in a Two-species Hard-core Bosons in One Dimensional Finite Lattice: An Exact Diagonalization Study
Ji-Woo Lee
Abstract
We study a model for two-species hard-core bosons in one dimension. In this model, the same-species bosons have a hard-core condition at the same site, while different-species bosons are allowed to occupy the same site with a local interaction U . At half-filling, by Jordan-Wigner transformation, the model can be exactly mapped to a fermionic Hubbard model. Due to this correspondence, the phase transition from superfluid ( U = 0) to Mott insulator ( U > 0) can be explained by simple one-band theory at half-filling. By using an exact diagonalization method adopting a modified Lanczos method, we obtain the ground states as a function of U for the lattice size upto L = 16. We calculate directional current-current correlation functions in this model, which indicate that there are some remaining counter-flow in the Mott insulating region ( U > 0) and co-flow in the charge-density-wave region ( U <0) for the finite lattices.