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Physical Review B

Effects of frustration on the anisotropic triangular lattice bosons

Jing-Yu Gan

Published Jul 17, 2008• 6 citations
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Abstract

We study the extended hard-core Bose-Hubbard model with nearest-neighbor interactions on a triangular lattice with spatial anisotropy by quantum Monte Carlo simulations. The effects of the geometric frustration or the anisotropic strength, represented by the ratio ${t}^{\ensuremath{'}}/t$ between the intrachain nearest-neighbor hopping ${t}^{\ensuremath{'}}$ and the interchain hopping $t$, are studied. We find that for small values of anisotropy ratio ${t}^{\ensuremath{'}}/t$, a solid state emerges at $\ensuremath{\rho}=1/2$ and a supersolid is unstable toward phase separation; for large values of anisotropy ratio ${t}^{\ensuremath{'}}/t$, solid states emerge at $\ensuremath{\rho}=1/3$, 2/3, and a supersolid phase is stable in the region $\ensuremath{\rho}<2/3$; for intermediate values of anisotropy ratio ${t}^{\ensuremath{'}}/t$, three kinds of solid states at fillings $\ensuremath{\rho}=1/3$, 1/2, and $\ensuremath{\rho}=2/3$ coexist and no stable supersolid phase is observed. At half filling, we find that with increasing frustration ${t}^{\ensuremath{'}}/t$, the $\ensuremath{\rho}=1/2$ solid transitions indirectly into the supersolid via an intervening superfluid.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.78.014513

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