Comment on "Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in two-dimensional dipolar stripes"
arXiv:2003.09678 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.102.047301
Abstract
In a recent article [R. Bombin, F. Mazzanti and J. Boronat, Phys. Rev. A100, 063614 (2019)], it is contended that a two-dimensional system of dipolar bosons, with dipole moments aligned at particular angles with respect to the direction perpendicular to the plane of motion, featuring a "striped" crystalline ground state, in turn undergoes a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless superfluid transition at low temperature, making it a two-dimensional supersolid. We show here that the results provided therein, obtained by means of Quantum Monte Carlo simulations, do not actually support such a conclusion. Rather, they are consistent with that expounded in our work [J. Low Temp. Phys. 196, 413 (2019)], namely that the striped ground state is insulating (i.e., non-superfluid in the conventional sense), essentially behaving like a system of quasi-one-dimensional, parallel independent chains. We attribute the incorrectness of the conclusion reached by Bombin et al. to the very small sizes of their simulated system, which do not allow for a reliable extrapolation to the thermodynamic limit.
arXiv comment3 pages, accepted for publication in Physical Review A
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