Exotic quantum liquids in Bose-Hubbard models with spatially modulated symmetries
Abstract
We investigate the effect that spatially modulated continuous conserved quantities can have on quantum ground states. We do so by introducing a family of one-dimensional local quantum rotor and bosonic models which conserve finite Fourier momenta of the particle number, but not the particle number itself. These correspond to generalizations of the standard Bose-Hubbard model and relate to the physics of Bose surfaces. First, we show that, while having an infinite-dimensional local Hilbert space, such systems feature a nontrivial Hilbert-space fragmentation for momenta incommensurate with the lattice. This is linked to the nature of the conserved quantities having a dense spectrum and provides the first such example. We then characterize the zero-temperature phase diagram for both commensurate and incommensurate momenta. In both cases, analytical and numerical calculations predict a phase transition between a gapped (Mott insulating) and quasi-long-range-order phase; the latter is characterized by a two-species Luttinger liquid in the infrared but dressed by oscillatory contributions when computing microscopic expectation values. Following a rigorous Villain formulation of the corresponding rotor model, we derive a dual description, from where we estimate the robustness of this phase using renormalization-group arguments, where the driving perturbation has ultralocal correlations in space but power-law correlations in time. We support this conclusion using an equivalent representation of the system as a two-dimensional vortex gas with modulated Coulomb interactions within a fixed symmetry sector. We conjecture that a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless-type transition is driven by the unbinding of vortices along the temporal direction.
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Additional details
- ISSN
- 2469-9969
- National Science Foundation
- PHY-1733907
- National Science Foundation
- DMR-2001186
- National Science Foundation
- PHY-2210452
- California Institute of Technology
- Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics
- Accepted
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2024-01-09published online
- Caltech groups
- Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, Institute for Quantum Information and Matter