Monday, April 2, 2012

1203.6653 (Susanne Pielawa et al.)

Frustrated quantum Ising spins simulated by spinless bosons in a tilted
lattice: from a quantum liquid to antiferromagnetic order
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Susanne Pielawa, Erez Berg, Subir Sachdev
We study spinless bosons in a decorated square lattice with a near-diagonal tilt. The resonant subspace of the tilted Mott insulator is described by an effective Hamiltonian of frustrated quantum Ising spins on a non-bipartite lattice. This generalizes an earlier proposal for the unfrustrated quantum Ising model in one dimension which was realized in a recent experiment on ultracold $^{87}$Rb atoms in an optical lattice. Very close to diagonal tilt, we find a quantum liquid state which is continuously connected to the paramagnet. Frustration can be reduced by increasing the tilt angle away from the diagonal, and the system undergoes a transition to an antiferromagnetically ordered state. Using quantum Monte Carlo simulations and exact diagonalization, we find that for realistic system sizes the antiferromagnetic order appears to be quasi-one-dimensional; however, in the thermodynamic limit the order is two-dimensional.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.6653

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