We carry out an extensive study of the phase diagram of the extended Bose Hubbard model, with a mean filling of one boson per site, in one dimension by using the density matrix renormalization group and show that it can have Superfluid (SF), Mott-insulator (MI), density-wave (DW) and Haldane-insulator (HI) phases depending on the precise value of filling and how edge states are handled. We show that the critical exponents and central charge for the HI-DW, MI-HI and SF-MI transitions are consistent with those for models in the two-dimensional Ising, Gaussian, and Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) universality classes, respectively; and we suggest that the SF-HI transition may be more exotic than a simple BKT transition.
We use the finite-size, density-matrix-renormalization-group (FSDMRG) method to obtain the phase diagram of the one-dimensional
(d=1) extended Bose-Hubbard model for density $\ensuremath{\rho}=1$ in the $U\ensuremath{-}V$ plane, where
U and
V are, respectively, onsite and nearest-neighbor interactions. The phase diagram comprises three phases: superfluid (SF), Mott insulator (MI), and mass-density-wave (MDW). For small values of
U and
V, we get a reentrant SF-MI-SF phase transition. For intermediate values of interactions the SF phase is sandwiched between MI and MDW phases with continuous SF-MI and SF-MDW transitions. We show, by a detailed, finite-size scaling analysis, that the MI-SF transition is of Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) type whereas the MDW-SF transition has both KT and two-dimensional Ising characters. For large values of
U and
V we get a direct, first-order, MI-MDW transition. The MI-SF, MDW-SF, and MI-MDW phase boundaries join at a bicritical point at $(U,V)=(8.5\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.05,4.75\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.05)$.
We investigate the momentum distribution associated with quantum phase transitions between a superfluid and a charge-density-wave state in the one-dimensional hard-core extended boson Hubbard model at half filling by using the Lanczos exact diagonalization method. The momentum distribution shows distinct features in different regions. At the Heisenberg point, it shows a universal behavior. In the superfluid phase, the Luttinger-liquid parameters are easily obtained from the finite-size scaling behaviors of the zero-momentum occupancy. Also the signature of a charge-density wave can be identified in the insulating phase.
We study the quantum (zero-temperature) critical behaviors of confined particle systems described by the one-dimensional (1D) Bose-Hubbard model in the presence of a confining potential, at the Mott insulator to superfluid transitions, and within the gapless superfluid phase. Specifically, we consider the hard-core limit of the model, which allows us to study the effects of the confining potential by exact and very accurate numerical results. We analyze the quantum critical behaviors in the large trap-size limit within the framework of the trap-size scaling (TSS) theory, which introduces a new trap exponent $\ensuremath{\theta}$ to describe the dependence on the trap size. This study is relevant for experiments of confined quasi-1D cold atom systems in optical lattices. At the low-density Mott transition, TSS can be shown analytically within the spinless fermion representation of the hard-core limit. The trap-size dependence turns out to be more subtle in the other critical regions, when the corresponding homogeneous system has a nonzero filling
f, showing an infinite number of level crossings of the lowest states when increasing the trap size. At the
n=1 Mott transition, this gives rise to a modulated TSS: The TSS is still controlled by the trap-size exponent $\ensuremath{\theta}$, but it gets modulated by periodic functions of the trap size. Modulations of the asymptotic power-law behavior is also found in the gapless superfluid region, with additional multiscaling behaviors.
The finite size scaling behavior of superfluid–insulator transition in the one-dimensional Bose–Hubbard model is studied. It is shown that the superfluid density of the system with finite size has a maximum at a certain interaction Um and the derivative of superfluid density has a minimum at a certain interaction Ud. The critical point Uc can be quantified by the scaling analysis of either Um or Ud. The transition point Um tends to the critical point Uc from the region of U < Uc, while the Ud tends to the Uc from the region of U > Uc. The transition points Um and Ud satisfy different finite size scaling laws and have the different critical exponents. The divergence speed of the superfluid density is much smaller than that of its derivative at the critical point.
We use the exact-diagonalization results for a one-dimensional finite-size boson Hubbard-like Hamiltonians to initialize the renormalization-group equations in the vicinity of the superfluid-insulator transition and demonstrate that this provides a rather accurate method of extrapolation of the finite-size results to larger system sizes, and in particular, pinpointing the critical parameters of the Hamiltonians. With our approach we reproduce with the accuracy \ensuremath{\sim}2.5% the known analytical result for the transition point in the half-filled system of hard-core bosons, obtain with a controllable accuracy the critical ratio (t/U
)c=0.304\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.002 for the boson Hubbard model, and find out that, in contrast to the general belief, the reduced Hamiltonian (with the constraint that the site occupation numbers be less than 3) is far from being a good approximation to the full model. \textcopyright{} 1996 The American Physical Society.