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arXiv:2212.12881 · New Journal of Physics

Superfluidity from correlations in driven boson systems

Jesús Mateos, C. E. Creffield, Fernando Sols

Published May 10, 2023• 6 citations
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Abstract We investigate theoretically the superfluidity of a one-dimensional boson system whose hopping energy is periodically modulated with a zero time average, which results in the suppression of first-order single-particle hopping processes. The dynamics of this Floquet-engineered flat-band system is entirely driven by correlations and described by exotic Hamiltonian and current operators. We employ exact diagonalization and compare our results with those of the conventional, undriven Bose–Hubbard system. We focus on the two main manifestations of superfluidity, the Hess-Fairbank effect and the metastability of supercurrents, with explicit inclusion of an impurity when relevant. Among the novel superfluid features, we highlight the presence of a cat-like ground state, with branches that have opposite crystal momentum but carry the same flux-dependent current, and the essential role of the interference between the collective components of the ground-state wave function. Calculation of the dynamic form factor reveals the presence of an acoustic mode that guarantees superfluidity in the thermodynamic limit.

DOI
10.1088/1367-2630/acd3a3

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Abstract We investigate theoretically the superfluidity of a one-dimensional boson system whose hopping energy is periodically modulated with a zero time average, which results in the suppression of first-order single-particle hopping processes. The dynamics of this Floquet-engineered flat-band system is entirely driven by correlations and described by exotic Hamiltonian and current operators. We employ exact diagonalization and compare our results with those of the conventional, undriven Bose–Hubbard system. We focus on the two main manifestations of superfluidity, the Hess-Fairbank effect and the metastability of supercurrents, with explicit inclusion of an impurity when relevant. Among the novel superfluid features, we highlight the presence of a cat-like ground state, with branches that have opposite crystal momentum but carry the same flux-dependent current, and the essential role of the interference between the collective components of the ground-state wave function. Calculation of the dynamic form factor reveals the presence of an acoustic mode that guarantees superfluidity in the thermodynamic limit.
We study the effect of time-periodically varying the hopping amplitude in a one-dimensional Bose–Hubbard model, such that its time-averaged value is zero. Employing Floquet theory, we derive a static effective Hamiltonian in which nearest-neighbor single-particle hopping processes are suppressed, but all even higher-order processes are allowed. Unusual many-body features arise from the combined effect of nonlocal interactions and correlated tunneling. At a critical value of the driving, the system passes from a Mott insulator to a superfluid formed by two quasi-condensates with opposite non-zero momenta. This work shows how driving of the hopping energy provides a novel form of Floquet engineering, which enables atypical Hamiltonians and exotic states of matter to be produced and controlled.
Abstract We study the spectral statistics of a one-dimensional Bose–Hubbard model subjected to kinetic driving; a form of Floquet engineering where the kinetic energy is periodically driven in time with a zero time-average. As the amplitude of the driving is increased, the ground state of the resulting flat-band system passes from the Mott insulator regime to an exotic superfluid. We show that this transition is accompanied by a change in the system’s spectral statistics from Poisson to GOE-type. Remarkably, and unlike in the conventional Bose–Hubbard model which we use as a benchmark, the details of the GOE statistics are sensitive to the parity of both the particle number and the lattice sites. We show how this effect arises from a hidden symmetry of the Hamiltonian produced by this form of Floquet driving.
The interplay between interactions and quantum geometry can drive weakly dispersive bosons into different exotic many-body phases. In this work we study a quasi flat-band model in one dimension that exhibits an extended pair-superfluid phase in the all-flat-band limit. Introducing single-particle hopping leads to an intriguing competition with a more conventional single-particle superfluid: we find that the pair superfluid remains stable for a finite range of the hopping strength until the system eventually transitions into the conventional superfluid phase. In our study, we make use of a variational Gaussian state approach that provides a unified description of the single-particle and pair superfluid phases, regarding both the ground state wavefunction and the collective excitation spectrum. In particular, we derive a general relation between the speed of sound and a ``quantum geometric kernel'', thereby extending earlier connections to the quantum metric, which relied on single-particle mean-field theory. This approach is combined with insights from the two-boson problem and exact diagonalization to map out the full phase diagram of the model. Our results show that the Gaussian approach is a versatile tool for studying a broad range of superfluid phases of interacting bosons in multi-orbital lattices.
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We present a microscopic theory for superfluidity in an interacting many-particle Bose system (such as liquid 4^44He). We show that, similar to superconductivity in superconductors, superfluidity in a Bose system arises from pairing of particles of opposite momenta. We show the existence of an energy gap in single-particle excitation spectrum in the superfluid state and the existence of a specific heat jump at the superfluid transition. We derive an expression for superfluid particle density nsn_sns​ as a function of temperature TTT and superfluid velocity vs{\bf v}_svs​. We show that superfluid-state free energy density FFF is an increasing function of vsv_svs​ (i.e., ∂F/∂vs>0\partial F/\partial v_s > 0∂F/∂vs​>0), which indicates that a superfluid has a tendency to remain motionless (this result qualitatively explains the Hess-Fairbank effect, which is analogous to the Meissner effect in superconductors). We further speculate the existence of the equation ${\bf j}=-Λ\nabla\times \text{\boldmath ωωω}$, where j=nsvs{\bf j} = n_s{\bf v}_sj=ns​vs​ is the superfluid current density, $\text{\boldmath ωωω}=\nabla\times {\bf v}_s$ the superfluid vorticity, and ΛΛΛ a positive constant (with the help of this equation, the Hess-Fairbank effect can be quantitatively described).