Antiferromagnetic bosonic $t$-$J$ models and their quantum simulation in tweezer arrays
Abstract
The combination of optical tweezer arrays with strong interactions -- via dipole-exchange of molecules and van-der-Waals interactions of Rydberg atoms -- has opened the door for the exploration of a wide variety of quantum spin models. A next significant step will be the combination of such settings with mobile dopants: This will enable to simulate the physics believed to underlie many strongly correlated quantum materials. Here we propose an experimental scheme to realize bosonic t-J models via encoding the local Hilbert space in a set of three internal atomic or molecular states. By engineering antiferromagnetic (AFM) couplings between spins, competition between charge motion and magnetic order similar to that in high- cuprates can be realized. Since the ground states of the 2D bosonic AFM t-J model we propose to realize have not been studied extensively before, we start by analyzing the case of two dopants -- the simplest instance in which their bosonic statistics plays a role, and contrast our results to the fermionic case. We perform large-scale density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) calculations on six-legged cylinders, and find a strong tendency for bosonic holes to form stripes. This demonstrates that bosonic, AFM t-J models may contain similar physics as the collective phases in strongly correlated electrons.
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@article{arxiv.2305.02322,
title = {Antiferromagnetic bosonic $t$-$J$ models and their quantum simulation in tweezer arrays},
author = {Lukas Homeier and Timothy J. Harris and Tizian Blatz and Sebastian Geier and Simon Hollerith and Ulrich Schollwöck and Fabian Grusdt and Annabelle Bohrdt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.02322},
year = {2024}
}