Mott Insulator - Superfluid Transitions in a Two Band Model at Finite Temperature and Possible Application to Supersolid 4He
arXiv:0704.3774 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.76.174504
Abstract
We study Mott insulator - superfluid transition in a two-band boson Hubbard model, which can be mapped onto a spin-1/2 XY model with spins coupled to an additional Ising degree of freedom. By using a modified mean field theory that include the effects of phase fluctuations, we show that the transition is first order at both zero and finite temperatures. On the Mott insulator side, there may be reentrance in phase transition. These features are consequences of the underlying transition between competing defect poor and defect rich phases. The relevance of the model and our results to supersolid 4He and cold bosonic atoms in optical lattices are discussed.
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