arXiv:1705.06012 · Physical Review A
Phase diagrams of Bose-Hubbard model and antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 models on a honeycomb lattice
Takashi Nakafuji, Ikuo Ichinose
Abstract
Motivated by the recent experimental realization of the Haldane model by ultracold fermions in an optical lattice, we investigate phase diagrams of the hard-core Bose-Hubbard model on a honeycomb lattice. This model is closely related with a spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic (AF) quantum spin model. Nearest-neighbor (NN) hopping amplitude is positive and it prefers an AF configuration of phases of Bose-Einstein condensates. On the other hand, an amplitude of the next-NN hopping depends on an angle variable as in the Haldane model. Phase diagrams are obtained by means of an extended path-integral Monte Carlo simulation. Besides the AF state, a ${120}^{\ensuremath{\circ}}$-order state, there appear other phases including a Bose metal in which no long-range orders exist.