Mott Insulator-Density Ordered Superfluid Transition and "Shamrock Transition" in a Frustrated Triangle Lattice

TL;DR

This paper uncovers a novel superfluid phase emerging from a Mott insulator in a frustrated triangle lattice, revealing a unique 'shamrock transition' between different density ordered superfluids driven by frustration and local interactions.

Contribution

It introduces the concept of a density ordered superfluid arising from a Mott insulator due to frustration, and identifies a new 'shamrock transition' beyond Landau-Ginzburg theory with emergent symmetries.

Findings

Discovery of a density ordered superfluid from a Mott insulator.

Identification of a 'shamrock transition' between superfluids.

Effective theories resembling clock models.

Abstract

Density order is usually a consequence of the competition between long-range and short-range interactions. Here we report a density ordered superfluid emergent from a homogeneous Mott insulator due to the competition between frustrations and local interactions. This transition is found in a Bose-Hubbard model on a frustrated triangle lattice with an extra pairing term. Further, we find a quantum phase transition between two different density ordered superfluids, which is beyond the Landau-Ginzburg paradigm. Across this transition, a U(1) symmetry is emergent, while the symmetry in each density ordered superfluid is Z2*Z3. Because there emerges a shamrock-like degenerate ground state in parameter space, we call the transition "shamrock transition". Effective low energy theories are established for the two transitions mentioned above and we find their resemblance and differences with clock models.