title: Quantum Domain Walls Induce Incommensurate Supersolid Phase on the Anisotropic Triangular Lattice.
abstract: We investigate the extended hard-core Bose-Hubbard model on the triangular lattice as a function of spatial anisotropy with respect to both hopping and nearest-neighbor interaction strength. At half-filling the system can be tuned from decoupled one-dimensional chains to a two-dimensional solid phase with alternating density order by adjusting the anisotropic coupling. At intermediate anisotropy, however, frustration effects dominate and an incommensurate supersolid phase emerges, which is characterized by incommensurate density order as well as an anisotropic superfluid density. We demonstrate that this intermediate phase results from the proliferation of topological defects in the form of quantum bosonic domain walls. Accordingly, the structure factor has peaks at wave vectors, which are linearly related to the number of domain walls in a finite system in agreement with extensive quantum Monte Carlo simulations. We discuss possible connections with the supersolid behavior in the high-temperature superconducting striped phase.
authors.affiliation: Physics Department and Research Center OPTIMAS, University of Kaiserslautern, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany.|Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, 01187 Dresden, Germany.|State Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
authors.forename: Xue-Feng
authors.initials: XF
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Physics Department and Research Center OPTIMAS, University of Kaiserslautern, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany.
authors.forename: Shijie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: Physics Department and Research Center OPTIMAS, University of Kaiserslautern, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany.
authors.forename: Axel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pelster
authors.affiliation: Physics Department and Research Center OPTIMAS, University of Kaiserslautern, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany.
authors.forename: Sebastian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Eggert