Interacting in-plane molecular dipoles in a zig-zag chain

Abstract

The system with externally polarized dipole molecules at half-filling moving along a one-dimensional zig-zag chain is studied theoretically, including the ground-state phase diagram. The dipoles are oriented in-plane. Together with the geometry of the chain this gives rise to a bond-alternating nearest neighbor interaction due to simultaneous attractive and repulsive interactions. Because of the quantum Zeno effect due to the reactive nature of molecules the system can be treated as hard-core. By tuning the ratio between the nearest-neighbor interaction and hopping, various phases can be accessed by controlling the polarization angle. In the ultra-strong coupling limit, the system simplifies to a frustrated extended axial Ising model. For the small coupling limit, qualitative discussion of the ordering behavior using effective field theory arguments is provided. We show that when chain angle is small, the system mostly exhibits BKT-type phase transitions, whereas large chain angle would drive the system into a gapped (Ising) dimerized phase, where the hopping strength is closely related to the orientation of dimerized pairs.

11 pages, 6 figures

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