Quarter-filled supersolid and solid phases in the extended Bose-Hubbard model

TL;DR

This paper investigates the phase diagram of a two-dimensional extended Bose-Hubbard model at quarter filling, revealing a stable commensurate supersolid phase and phase transitions between solid phases using quantum Monte Carlo and mean field methods.

Contribution

It provides the first numerical confirmation of a commensurate supersolid phase at quarter filling in the extended Bose-Hubbard model, highlighting the stability and nature of this phase.

Findings

Confirmation of a stable commensurate supersolid at quarter filling.

Identification of a first order transition between two solid phases.

Analysis of order parameter changes with chemical potential.

Abstract

We numerically study the ground state phase diagram of the two-dimensional hard-core Bose-Hubbard model with nearest ($V_1$) and next nearest neighbor ($V_2$) repulsions. In particular, we focus on the quarter-filled phases where one supersolid and two solid phases are observed. Using both canonical and grand canonical quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods and a mean field calculation, we confirm the existence of a \textit{commensurate} supersolid at quarter boson filling. The nature of the commensurate supersolid will be discussed. Only one kind of the supersolid phase is found energetically stable despite of the two possible diagonal long range orderings for the solid phase. The competition between the two solid phases manifests as a first order phase transition around $2 V_2\sim V_1$. The change of order parameters as functions of the chemical function is also presented.