Systems with long-range interactions show a variety of intriguing properties: they typically accommodate many metastable states, they can give rise to spontaneous formation of supersolids, and they can lead to counterintuitive thermodynamic behavior. However, the increased complexity that comes with long-range interactions strongly hinders theoretical studies. This makes a quantum simulator for long-range models highly desirable. Here, we show that a chain of trapped ions can be used to quantum simulate a onedimensional (1D) model of hard-core bosons with dipolar off-site interaction and tunneling, equivalent to a dipolar XXZ spin-1/2 chain. We explore the rich phase diagram of this model in detail, employing perturbative mean-field theory, exact diagonalization and quasi-exact numerical techniques (densitymatrix renormalization group and infinite time-evolving block decimation). We find that the complete devil's staircase - an infinite sequence of crystal states existing at vanishing tunneling - spreads to a succession of lobes similar to the Mott lobes found in Bose-Hubbard models. Investigating the melting of these crystal states at increased tunneling, we do not find (contrary to similar 2Dmodels) clear indications of supersolid behavior in the region around the melting transition. However, we find that inside the insulating lobes there are quasilong- range (algebraic) correlations, as opposed to models with nearest-neighbor tunneling, that show exponential decay of correlations. © IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.

Complete devil's staircase and crystal-superfluid transitions in a dipolar XXZ spin chain: A trapped ion quantum simulation / Hauke, Philipp; Cucchietti, Fernando M.; Müller-Hermes, Alexander; Bañuls, Mari-Carmen; Cirac, J. Ignacio; Lewenstein, Maciej. - In: NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. - ISSN 1367-2630. - ELETTRONICO. - 12:11(2010), pp. 113037.1-113037.17. [10.1088/1367-2630/12/11/113037]

Complete devil's staircase and crystal-superfluid transitions in a dipolar XXZ spin chain: A trapped ion quantum simulation

Hauke, Philipp;
2010-01-01

Abstract

Systems with long-range interactions show a variety of intriguing properties: they typically accommodate many metastable states, they can give rise to spontaneous formation of supersolids, and they can lead to counterintuitive thermodynamic behavior. However, the increased complexity that comes with long-range interactions strongly hinders theoretical studies. This makes a quantum simulator for long-range models highly desirable. Here, we show that a chain of trapped ions can be used to quantum simulate a onedimensional (1D) model of hard-core bosons with dipolar off-site interaction and tunneling, equivalent to a dipolar XXZ spin-1/2 chain. We explore the rich phase diagram of this model in detail, employing perturbative mean-field theory, exact diagonalization and quasi-exact numerical techniques (densitymatrix renormalization group and infinite time-evolving block decimation). We find that the complete devil's staircase - an infinite sequence of crystal states existing at vanishing tunneling - spreads to a succession of lobes similar to the Mott lobes found in Bose-Hubbard models. Investigating the melting of these crystal states at increased tunneling, we do not find (contrary to similar 2Dmodels) clear indications of supersolid behavior in the region around the melting transition. However, we find that inside the insulating lobes there are quasilong- range (algebraic) correlations, as opposed to models with nearest-neighbor tunneling, that show exponential decay of correlations. © IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.
2010
11
Hauke, Philipp; Cucchietti, Fernando M.; Müller-Hermes, Alexander; Bañuls, Mari-Carmen; Cirac, J. Ignacio; Lewenstein, Maciej
Complete devil's staircase and crystal-superfluid transitions in a dipolar XXZ spin chain: A trapped ion quantum simulation / Hauke, Philipp; Cucchietti, Fernando M.; Müller-Hermes, Alexander; Bañuls, Mari-Carmen; Cirac, J. Ignacio; Lewenstein, Maciej. - In: NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. - ISSN 1367-2630. - ELETTRONICO. - 12:11(2010), pp. 113037.1-113037.17. [10.1088/1367-2630/12/11/113037]
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