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Exotic Haldane Superfluid Phase of Soft-Core Bosons in Optical Lattices

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2016-05-17 v2 Quantum Gases Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We propose to realize an exotic Haldane superfluid (HSF) phase in an extended Bose-Hubbard model on the two-leg ladder (i.e., a two-species mixture of interacting bosons). The proposal is confirmed by means of large-scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations, with a significant part of the ground-state phase diagram being revealed. Most remarkably, the newly discovered HSF phase features both superfluidity and the non-local topological Haldane order. The effects induced by varying the number of legs are furthermore explored. Our results shed light on how topological superfluid emerges in bosonic systems.

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@article{arxiv.1505.06958,
  title  = {Exotic Haldane Superfluid Phase of Soft-Core Bosons in Optical Lattices},
  author = {Jian-Ping Lv and Z. D. Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.06958},
  year   = {2016}
}

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5 pages, 6 figures; accepted for publication in Physical Review B (April 29, 2016)