Helical superfluid in a frustrated honeycomb Bose-Hubbard model
arXiv:2206.00013 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.106.023321
Abstract
We study a "helical" superfluid, a nonzero-momentum condensate in a frustrated bosonic model. At mean-field Bogoliubov level, such a novel state exhibits "smectic" fluctuation that are qualitatively stronger than that of a conventional superfluid. We develop a phase diagram and compute a variety of its physical properties, including the spectrum, structure factor, condensate depletion, momentum distribution, all of which are qualitatively distinct from that of a conventional superfluid. Interplay of fluctuations, interaction and lattice effects gives rise to the phenomenon of order-by-disorder, leading to a crossover from the smectic superfluid regime to the anisotropic XY superfluid phase. We complement the microscopic lattice analysis with a field theoretic description for such a helical superfluid, which we derive from microscopics and justify on general symmetry grounds, reassuringly finding full consistency. Possible experimental realizations are discussed.
29 pages, 13 figures. Version published in PRA, with minor edits
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