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Supersolid phases in underdamped Josephson arrays: Quantum Monte Carlo simulations

Eric Roddick and David Stroud
Phys. Rev. B 51, 8672(R) – Published 1 April 1995
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Abstract

We carry out a quantum Monte Carlo study of Josephson arrays at temperature T=0 in the presence of an offset voltage between array and substrate. With diagonal and nearest-neighbor charge coupling, we find two types of insulating lobes with different types of charge order, and two types of superconducting regions. One is a supersolid with coexisting long-range phase coherence and checkerboard charge order. The supersolid phase is robust at half-filling. With next-nearest-neighbor coupling, there are two types of supersolid phase, one with checkerboard and one with striped charge order. Our phase diagram agrees with mean-field theory and with quantum Monte Carlo results of van Otterlo et al. in comparable regions of parameter space, but differs in detail from that of a Bose-Hubbard model with nearest-neighbor charging energies.

  • Received 21 December 1994

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.51.8672

©1995 American Physical Society

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Eric Roddick and David Stroud

  • Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210

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Vol. 51, Iss. 13 — 1 April 1995

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