Beats, broken-symmetry superfluid on a one dimensional anyon Hubbard model

TL;DR

This paper investigates a one-dimensional anyon Hubbard model, revealing a broken-symmetry superfluid phase exhibiting beat phenomena in correlations, with phase diagrams and potential experimental observations.

Contribution

It introduces the concept of beat phenomena in the broken-symmetry superfluid phase of the anyon Hubbard model and analyzes phase transitions using DMRG and mean field methods.

Findings

Identification of a broken-symmetry superfluid phase with beat phenomena

Phase diagrams showing different phases at various $ heta$ values

Prediction of double-peak momentum distribution observable in experiments

Abstract

By using the density matrix renormalization group and mean field methods, the anyon Hubbard model is studied systematically on a one dimensional lattice. The model can be expressed as a Bose-Hubbard model with a density-dependent-phase term. When the phase angle is $\theta=0$ or $\theta=\pi$, the model will be equivalent to boson and pseudo fermion models, respectively. In the mean field frame, we find a broken-symmetry superfluid (BSF), in which the $b^{\dagger}(b)$ operators on the nearest neighborhood sites have exactly opposite directions and behave like a directed oscillation pattern. By the density matrix reorganization group method, in the broken-symmetry superfluid, both the real and imaginary parts of the correlation $b^{\dagger}_ib_{i+r}$ behave according to a {\it beat phenomenon} with $0<\theta<\pi$ in the form $C_0e^{i k r}(-1)^{r}$ or behave like waves with different wavelengths in the form $C_0e^{i k r}$. The distributions of the broken-symmetry superfluid phase and other phases are shown in the phase diagrams with different values of $\theta$ and the direct phase transition between the two types of superfluid is observed. The beats phenomenon is explained by double peaks of momentum distribution with two wave numbers ${k}_1$ and ${k}_2$ satisfying the condition $\frac{{k}_1-{k}_2}{{k}_1+{k}_2}<\frac{1}{3}$, which are expected to be observed in the optical experiments.