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Topological phase separation in 2D quantum lattice Bose-Hubbard system away from half-filling

Superconductivity 2009-11-10 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We suppose that the doping of the 2D hard-core boson system away from half-filling may result in the formation of multi-center topological inhomogeneity (defect) such as charge order (CO) bubble domain(s) with Bose superfluid (BS) and extra bosons both localized in domain wall(s), or a {\it topological} CO+BS {\it phase separation}, rather than an uniform mixed CO+BS supersolid phase. Starting from the classical model we predict the properties of the respective quantum system. The long-wavelength behavior of the system is believed to remind that of granular superconductors, CDW materials, Wigner crystals, and multi-skyrmion system akin in a quantum Hall ferromagnetic state of a 2D electron gas. To elucidate the role played by quantum effects and that of the lattice discreteness we have addressed the simplest nanoscopic counterpart of the bubble domain in a checkerboard CO phase of 2D hc-BH square lattice. It is shown that the relative magnitude and symmetry of multi-component order parameter are mainly determined by the sign of the nnnn and nnnnnn transfer integrals. In general, the topologically inhomogeneous phase of the hc-BH system away from the half-filling can exhibit the signatures both of s,ds,d, and pp symmetry of the off-diagonal order.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0404562,
  title  = {Topological phase separation in 2D quantum lattice Bose-Hubbard system away from half-filling},
  author = {A. S. Moskvin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0404562},
  year   = {2009}
}

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12 pages, 6 figures