Longhua Jiang and Jinwu Ye 2006 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 18 6907 doi:10.1088/0953-8984/18/29/028
Longhua Jiang and Jinwu Ye
Show affiliationsIt was known that by a duality transformation, interacting bosons at filling factor f = p/q hopping on a lattice can be mapped to interacting vortices hopping on the dual lattice subject to a fluctuating dual 'magnetic field' whose average strength through a dual plaquette is equal to the boson density f = p/q. So the kinetic term of the vortices is the same as the Hofstadter problem of electrons moving in a lattice in the presence of f = p/q flux per plaquette. Motivated by this mapping, we study the Hofstadter bands of vortices hopping in the presence of magnetic flux f = p/q per plaquette on five most common bipartite and frustrated lattices namely square, honeycomb, triangular, dice and Kagome lattices. We count the total number of bands, and determine the number of minima and their locations in the lowest band. We also numerically calculate the bandwidths of the lowest Hofstadter bands in these lattices that directly measure the mobility of the dual vortices. The less mobile the dual vortices are, the more likely are the bosons to be in a superfluid state. We find that apart from the Kagome lattice at odd q, they all satisfy the exponential decay law W = Ae−cq even at the smallest q. At given q, the bandwidth W decreases in the order of triangle, square and honeycomb lattice. This indicates that the domain of the superfluid state of the original bosons increases in the order of the corresponding direct lattices: honeycomb, square and triangular. When q = 2, we find that the lowest Hofstadter band is completely flat for both Kagome and dice lattices. There is a gap on the Kagome lattice, but no gap on the dice lattice. This indicates that the boson ground state at half filling with nearest neighbour hopping on Kagome lattice is always a superfluid state. The superfluid state remains stable slightly away from the half filling. Our results show that the behaviours of bosons at or near half filling on Kagome lattices are quite distinct from those in square, honeycomb and triangular lattices studied previously.
Issue 29 (26 July 2006)
Received 4 May 2006
Published 6 July 2006
Longhua Jiang and Jinwu Ye 2006 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 18 6907
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