Polar molecules in frustrated triangular ladders

TL;DR

This paper explores the rich quantum phases of hard-core polar molecules in frustrated triangular ladders, revealing novel bond-ordered supersolids and various superfluid states due to frustration and multi-body interactions.

Contribution

It demonstrates the emergence of bond-ordered supersolids and diverse superfluid phases in frustrated polar molecule lattices, a first in this context.

Findings

Gapped phases with bond-order and density-wave order at commensurate fillings.

Chiral, two-component, and pair-superfluids at incommensurate fillings.

Observation of bond-ordered supersolids in frustrated lattice systems.

Abstract

Polar molecules in geometrically frustrated lattices may result in a very rich landscape of quantum phases, due to the non-trivial interplay between frustration, and two- and possibly three-body inter-site interactions. In this paper, we illustrate this intriguing physics for the case of hard-core polar molecules in frustrated triangular ladders. Whereas commensurate lattice fillings result in gapped phases with bond-order and/or density-wave order, at incommensurate fillings we find chiral-, two-component-, and pair-superfluids. We show as well that, remarkably, polar molecules in frustrated lattices allow, for the first time to our knowledge, for the observation of bond-ordered supersolids.