Chiral Mott Insulators, Meissner Effect, and Laughlin States in Quantum Ladders
arXiv:1410.6105 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.91.054520
Abstract
We introduce generic bosonic models exemplifying that chiral Meissner currents can persist in insulating phases of matter. We first consider interacting bosons on a two-leg ladder. The total density sector can be gapped in a bosonic Mott insulator at odd-integer filling, while the relative density sector remains superfluid due to interchain hopping. Coupling the relative density to gauge fields yields a pseudospin Meissner effect. We show that the same phase arises if the bosons are replaced by spinful fermions confined in Cooper pairs, and find a dual fermionic Mott insulator with spinon currents. We prove that by tuning the mean density the Mott insulator with Meissner currents turns into a low-dimensional bosonic Laughlin state for strong enough repulsive interactions across the ladder rungs. We finally discuss extensions to multileg ladders and bilayers in which spinon superfluids with Meissner currents become possible. We propose two experimental realizations, one with ultracold atoms in the setup of Atala et al., Nat. Phys. \textbf{8}, 588 (2014) and another with Josephson junction arrays. We also address a Bose-Fermi mixture subject to a magnetic field in connection with the pseudo-gap phase of high-Tc cuprates.
27 pages, 11 figures
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