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Physical Review A

Quantum phases of dipolar soft-core bosons

Daniel Grimmer, Arghavan Safavi-Naini, Barbara Capogrosso-Sansone, Şebnem Güneş Söyler

Published Oct 30, 2014• 11 citations
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Abstract

We study the phase diagram of a system of soft-core dipolar bosons confined to a two-dimensional optical lattice layer. We assume that dipoles are aligned perpendicular to the layer such that the dipolar interactions are purely repulsive and isotropic. We consider the full dipolar interaction and perform path-integral quantum Monte Carlo simulations using the worm algorithm. Besides a superfluid phase, we find various solid and supersolid phases. We show that, unlike what was found previously for the case of nearest-neighbor interaction, supersolid phases are stabilized by doping the solids not only with particles but with holes as well. We further study the stability of these quantum phases against thermal fluctuations. Finally, we discuss pair formation and the stability of the pair checkerboard phase formed in a bilayer geometry, and we suggest experimental conditions under which the pair checkerboard phase can be observed.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.90.043635

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The recent advances in creating nearly degenerate quantum dipolar gases in optical lattices are opening the doors for the exploration of equilibrium physics of quantum systems with anisotropic and long-range dipolar interactions. In this paper we study the zero- and finite-temperature phase diagrams of a system of hard-core dipolar bosons at half-filling, trapped in a two-dimensional square optical lattice. The dipoles are aligned parallel to one another and tilted out of the optical lattice plane by means of an external electric field. At zero-temperature, the system is a superfluid (SF) at all tilt angles θ provided that the strength of dipolar interaction is below a critical value . Upon increasing the interaction strength while keeping θ fixed, the SF phase is destabilized in favor of a checkerboard or a stripe solid (SS) depending on the tilt angle. We explore the nature of the phase transition between the two solid phases, identifying a region of metastable emulsion states intervening between the two solid lobes. Additionally, we study the stability of these quantum phases against thermal fluctuations and find that the SS is the most robust, making it the best candidate for experimental observation.
We consider a mixture of hard-core bosonic polar molecules, interacting via repulsive dipole-dipole interaction, and one atomic bosonic species. The mixture is confined on a two-dimensional square lattice and, at low enough temperatures, can be described by the two-component Bose-Hubbard model. The latter displays an extremely rich phase diagram including solid, superfluid, and supersolid phases. Here, we mainly focus on the checkerboard molecular solid, stabilized by the long-range dipolar interaction, and study how the presence of atoms affects its robustness both at zero and finite temperatures. We find that, due to atom-molecule interactions, solid phases can be stabilized at both (much) lower strengths of dipolar interaction and higher temperatures, than when no atoms are present. As a byproduct, atoms also order in a solid phase with the same melting temperatures as for molecules. Finally, we find that for large enough interaction between atoms and molecules, a paired supersolid phase can be stabilized.