Supersolidity and phase diagram of soft-core bosons on a triangular lattice
Jing-Yu Gan, Yu-Chuan Wen, Yue Yu
We study the soft-core extended Bose-Hubbard model in a two-dimensional triangular lattice by using the quantum Monte Carlo methods. The ground-state phase diagram of the system exhibits a very fruitful structure and is much intriguing. Aside from the Mott insulating state, four kinds of solid states with respect to the commensurate filling factors $\ensuremath{\rho}=1∕3,2∕3$ and $\ensuremath{\rho}=1$ are identified. In incommensurate fillings, superfluid, supersolid, as well as phase-separation states are detected. As in the case of the hard-core bosons, a supersolid phase exists in $1∕3<\ensuremath{\rho}<2∕3$ while it is unstable toward the phase separation in $\ensuremath{\rho}<1∕3$. However, this instability is refrained in $2∕3<\ensuremath{\rho}<1$ due to the softening of the bosons, and then a supersolid phase survives.
arXiv:cond-mat/0609492•Physical Review B•Mar 1, 2007•24 citations