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Supersolid phase in fully frustrated Josephson junction arrays

Condensed Matter 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

We study the phase diagram and the excitation spectra of an array of small Josephson junctions at f=1/2f=1/2 and arbitrary charge frustration. We find that the supersolid region in the phase diagram is larger than the correspondent region at f=0f=0 and it includes two different phases.In the chiral supersolid (SS) charges and vortices are arranged in a checkerboard pattern on a 2×22\:\times \:2 supercell analogously to the unfrustrated case. We find a new phase, which we term {\em non-chiral supersolid} (NCSS), which has no corresponding phase at f=0f=0. The excitation spectra in the supersolid regions show particle like dispersions which is related to the defectons. The defecton condensation leads to superfluidity in the presence of charge ordered background.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9608044,
  title  = {Supersolid phase in fully frustrated Josephson junction arrays},
  author = {Luigi Amico and Giuseppe Falci and Rosario Fazio and Gaetano Giaquinta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9608044},
  year   = {2009}
}

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16 pages REVTEX , 14 figures.ps