Extended Bose-Hubbard model with dipolar excitons
arXiv:2201.03311 · doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05123-z
Abstract
The Hubbard model constitutes one of the most celebrated theoretical frameworks of condensed-matter physics. It describes strongly correlated phases of interacting quantum particles confined in lattice potentials. For bosons, the Hubbard Hamiltonian has been deeply scrutinised for short-range on-site interactions. However, accessing longer-range couplings has remained elusive experimentally. This marks the frontier towards the extended Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian that allows insulating ordered phases at fractional lattice fillings. Here we implement this Hamiltonian by confining semiconductor dipolar excitons in an artificial two-dimensional square lattice. Strong dipolar repulsions between nearest neighbouring lattice sites then stabilise an insulating state at half filling. This characteristic feature of the extended Bose-Hubbard model exhibits signatures theoretically expected for a checkerboard spatial order. Our work thus highlights that dipolar excitons enable controlled implementations of boson-like arrays with strong off-site interactions, in lattices with programmable geometries and over 100 sites.
14 pages, 7 figures
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