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Extended supersolid phase of frustrated hard-core bosons on a triangular lattice

Statistical Mechanics 2009-01-07 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We study a model of hard-core bosons with frustrated nearest-neighbor hopping (tt) and repulsion (VV) on the triangular lattice. We argue for a supersolid ground state in the large repulsion (VtV\gg|t|) limit where a dimer representation applies, by constructing a unitary mapping to the well understood unfrustrated hopping case. This generalized 'Marshall sign rule' allows us to establish the precise nature of the supersolid order by utilizing a recently proposed dimer variational wavefunction, whose correlations can be efficiently calculated using the Grassman approach. By continuity, a supersolid is predicted over the wide parameter range, V>2t>0V>-2t>0. This also establishes a simple phase diagram for the triangular lattice spin 1/2 XXZ antiferromagnet.

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@article{arxiv.0809.1667,
  title  = {Extended supersolid phase of frustrated hard-core bosons on a triangular lattice},
  author = {Fa Wang and Frank Pollmann and Ashvin Vishwanath},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.1667},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures