Dipole condensates in tilted Bose-Hubbard chains Ethan Lake1Hyun-Yong Lee2 3 4Jung Hoon Han5and T. Senthil1 1Department of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA 02139

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Dipole condensates in tilted Bose-Hubbard chains
Ethan Lake,1Hyun-Yong Lee,2, 3, 4 Jung Hoon Han,5and T. Senthil1
1Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139
2Division of Display and Semiconductor Physics, Korea University, Sejong 30019, Korea
3Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School, Korea University, Sejong 30019, Korea
4Interdisciplinary Program in E·ICT-Culture-Sports Convergence, Korea University, Sejong 30019, Korea
5Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Korea
We study the quantum phase diagram of a Bose-Hubbard chain whose dynamics conserves both
boson number and boson dipole moment, a situation which can arise in strongly tilted optical
lattices. The conservation of dipole moment has a dramatic effect on the phase diagram, which
we analyze by combining a field theory analysis with DMRG simulations. In the thermodynamic
limit, the phase diagram is dominated by various types of incompressible dipolar condensates. In
finite-sized systems however, it may be possible to stabilize a ‘Bose-Einstein insulator’: an exotic
compressible phase which is insulating, despite the absence of a charge gap. We suggest several
ways by which these exotic phases can be identified in near-term cold atom experiments.
I. INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY
Many of the most fascinating phenomena in quantum
condensed matter physics arise from the competition be-
tween kinetic energy and interactions, and it is there-
fore interesting to examine situations in which the roles
played by either kinetic energy or interactions can be
altered. One way of doing this is by finding a way to
quench the system’s kinetic energy. This can be done
with strong magnetic fields—which allows one to explore
the rich landscape of quantum Hall phenomenology—or
by engineering the system to have anomalously flat en-
ergy bands, as has been brought to the forefront of con-
densed matter physics with the emergence of Moire ma-
terials [1].
A comparatively less well understood way to quench
kinetic energy occurs when exotic conservation laws in-
hibit particle motion. One large class of models in which
this mechanism is operative are systems whose dynam-
ics conserves the dipole moment (i.e. center of mass) of
the system’s constituent particles, in addition to total
particle number [2,3]. This conservation law can be
easily engineered as an emergent symmetry in strongly-
tilted optical lattices, where energy conservation facil-
itates dipole-conserving dynamics over arbitrarily long
pre-thermal timescales [46] (other physical realizations
are discussed below).
Dipole conservation prevents individual particles from
moving independently on their own [Fig. 1(a)]. In-
stead, motion is possible in only one of two ways: first,
two nearby particles can ‘push’ off of each other, and
move in opposite directions. This type of motion allows
particles to hop over short distances, since this process
freezes out as the particles get far apart. Second, a par-
ticle and a hole (where ‘hole’ is defined with respect to a
background density of particles) can team up to form a
dipolar bound state, which — by virtue of the fact that
it is charge neutral — may actually move freely, without
constraints. Dipole conservation thus forces the system’s
‘kinetic energy’ to be intrinsically nonlinear, as the way
V
constrained hopping tilted optical lattice
(a)(b)
FIG. 1: (a) The restricted kinematics of dipole
conservation. An isolated boson cannot move (top),
while two nearby bosons can move only by coordinated
hopping in opposite directions (middle). A boson and a
hole (blue circle) can move freely in both directions
(bottom). (b) Approximate dipole conservation can be
engineered in tilted optical lattices with large tilt
strength V. Energy conservation then forbids single
bosons from hopping (top), while dipole-conserving
hopping processes are allowed (bottom).
in which any given particle moves is always conditioned
on the charge distribution in its immediate vicinity. This
leads to a blurring of the lines between kinetic energy
and interactions, producing a wide range of interesting
physical phenomena.
The effects of dipole conservation on quantum dynam-
ics have been explored quite intensely in recent years,
with the attendant kinetic constraints often leading to
Hilbert space fragmentation, slow thermalization, and
anomalous diffusion (e.g. [821]). On the other hand,
there has been comparatively little focus on understand-
ing the quantum ground states of dipole conserving mod-
els [2225]. Addressing this problem requires developing
intuition for how interactions compete with an intrinsi-
cally nonlinear form of kinetic energy, and understanding
the types of states favored when the dipolar kinetic en-
ergy dominates the physics.
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FIG. 2: (a) thermodynamic phase diagram of the 1d DBHM as a function of boson filling ρand hopping strength
t/U (with t4=t3t). The blue region denotes a dipole condensate (DC) which for non-integer ρhas CDW order.
In finite-sized systems the DC may give way to a Bose-Einstein insulator, although where exactly this is most likely
to occur is non-universal. Red lines denote a different type of DC marked as ‘bDC’ (here ‘b’ stands for
bond-centered CDW; see text for details), whose existence relies on having a nonzero t4. Black lines at integer ρ
denote Mott insulators, and in the shaded pink region phase separation between the MI and bDC phases occurs.
The green region at largest t/U denotes the fractured Bose droplet (FBD) phase. The small white circles signify the
location of the phase boundary as obtained in DMRG. (b) Plots of the real-space average density hρiifor the four
points marked on the phase diagram. (c) Entanglement entropy in the DC phase (top) and the bDC (bottom). The
red lines are c= 1 fits to the Calabrese-Cardy formula for the entanglement entropy Si= (c/6) log[(2L/π) sin(πi/L)]
for a finite chain of length L[7].
One concrete step towards addressing these questions
was given in Ref. [22], which put forward the dipolar
Bose-Hubbard model (DBHM) as a representative model
that succinctly captures the effects of dipole conserva-
tion. The DBHM is simply a dipole-conserving version
of the well-loved Bose Hubbard model, and displays a va-
riety of interesting phases with rather perplexing proper-
ties, all driven by the physics of the dipolar bound states
mentioned above. Of particular interest is the Bose-
Einstein insulator (BEI) phase identified in Ref. [22],
which is realized in the regime where the nonlinear kinetic
energy dominates. The BEI is compressible, and contains
a Bose-Einstein condensate, but remarkably is neverthe-
less insulating, and has vanishing superfluid weight.
The aim of the present work is to perform a detailed
investigation of the DBHM in one dimension, with the
aim of fully understanding the phase diagram and mak-
ing concrete predictions for near-term cold atom experi-
ments. We are able to understand the entire phase dia-
gram within a concise field theory framework, whose pre-
dictions we confirm with extensive DMRG simulations.
We will see that the physics of the DBHM in 1d is slightly
different from the 2d and 3d versions, in that the BEI
phase is absent in the thermodynamic limit, being ren-
dered unstable by a particular type of relevant perturba-
tion. However, if the bare strength of these destabilizing
perturbations is very small it may be possible to stabilize
a BEI regime up to (potentially very large) length scales.
In the following we will see various pieces of numerical
evidence that this indeed can occur at fractional fillings.
The concrete model we will study in this paper is a
modified version of the standard Bose-Hubbard model,
with the hopping terms modified to take into account
dipole conservation:
HDBHM =X
it3b
i1b2
ib
i+1 +t4b
i1bibi+1b
i+2 +h.c.
+U
2X
i
n2
i,
(1)
where ni=b
ibiis the boson number operator on site
i, and t3,40 determine the strength of the dipole-
conserving hopping processes (see Sec. II for an expla-
nation of how HDBHM arises in the tilted optical lattice
context). In this paper we will always work in the canon-
ical ensemble, with the boson density fixed at
ρ=n
m,gcd(n, m)=1,(2)
where we are working in units where the lattice spacing
is equal to unity. Our goal is to study the behavior of
the ground states of HDBHM as a function of t3,4/U and
3
ρ.1
Let us now give a brief overview of our results. The
phase diagram we obtain is shown in Fig. 2(a), and
contains a lot of information. At the present juncture
we will only mention its most salient features, leaving a
more detailed treatment to the following sections.
Our first result is that—at least in the thermodynamic
limit—there is a nonzero charge gap to exciting single
bosons throughout the phase diagram. Regardless of t/U
and ρ, the boson correlation functions always decay as
hb
ibji ∼ e−|ij|, with the ground state being incom-
pressible across the entire phase diagram. This is rather
remarkable, as the system thus remains incompressible
over a continuous range of filling fractions, and moreover
does so without disorder, and with only short-ranged in-
teractions. It manages to do this by having vortices in the
boson phase condense at all points of the phase diagram,
a situation which is made possible by the way in which
dipole conservation modifies vortex energetics. This is of
course in marked contrast to the regular Bose-Hubbard
model, which has a compressible superfluid phase which
is broken by incompressible Mott insulators only at inte-
ger filling fractions and weak hopping strengths [26].
While the statements in the above paragraph are cor-
rect in the thermodynamic limit, the ubiquitous vortex
condensation just discussed may be suppressed in finite
systems. This will happen if the operators which cre-
ate vortices can take a long time to be generated under
RG, becoming appreciable only at extremely large length
scales. In our model this is particularly relevant at frac-
tional fillings, where a BEI seems to be realized in our
DMRG numerics. In Sec. Vwe study this phenomenon
from a different point of view within the context of a
dipolar rotor model.
The broad-strokes picture of our phase diagram is dic-
tated by the physics of neutral ‘excitonic’ dipolar bound
states of particles and holes annihilated by the dipole
operators
dib
ibi+1.(3)
As discussed above, the motion of these dipolar particle-
hole bound states is not constrained by dipole conserva-
tion. This can be seen mathematically by noting that
the hopping terms in HDBHM can be written using the
dioperators as
Hhop =X
i
(t3d
idi+1 +t4d
idi+2 +h.c.),(4)
and thus constitute conventional hopping terms for the
dipolar bound states. Since the dipolar bound states are
allowed to move freely, it is natural to expect that the
1See also Ref. [11] for a discussion of the ground state physics of
a dipolar spin-1 model, which in some aspects behaves similarly
to our model at half-odd-integer filling and small t3,4/U.
most efficient way for the system to lower its energy is
for them to Bose condense. Indeed, this expectation is
born out in both our field theory analysis and in our
numerical simulations. The result of this condensation is
an exotic gapless phase we refer to as a dipole condensate
(DC). Unlike the superfluid that occurs in the standard
Bose-Hubbard model, the dipole condensate realized here
is formed by charge neutral objects, and in fact actually
has vanishing DC conductivity.
A second interesting feature of the DBHM is an insta-
bility to an exotic glassy phase we dub the fractured Bose
droplet (FBD) phase. This instability occurs in the green
region drawn in the phase diagram of Fig. 2(a), and is in
fact common to all dipole-conserving boson models of the
form (1). It arises simply due to the nfactors appearing
in b|ni=n|n1i, b|n1i=n|ni. These factors
mean that when acting on a state of average density ρ,
the dipolar hopping terms in the Hamiltonian scale as
2(t3+t4)ρ2at large ρ, precisely in the same way as the
Hubbard repulsion term, which goes as + 1
2Uρ2. Thus
when
t3+t4U
4,(5)
it is always energetically favorable to locally make ρas
large as possible (in our phase diagram, DMRG finds an
instability exactly when this condition is satisfied). Once
this occurs, the lowest-energy state of the system will
be one in which all of the bosons agglomerate into one
macroscopic droplet [Fig. 2(b), panel 4].
The physics of the FBD phase is actually much more
interesting than the above discussion might suggest:
rather than simply forming a giant droplet containing an
extensively large number of bosons, dipole conservation
means that the system instead fractures into an interest-
ing type of metastable glassy state (the physics of which
may underlie the observation of spontaneous formation
in the dipole-conserving 2d system of Ref. [27]). Un-
derstanding the physics of this phase requires a set of
theoretical tools better adapted to addressing dynamical
questions, and will be addressed in a separate upcoming
work [28] (see also the fractonic microemulsions of Ref.
[23]).
The remainder of this paper is structured as follows. In
the next section (Sec. II), we briefly discuss various possi-
ble routes to realizing the DBHM in experiment, focusing
in particular on the setup of tilted optical lattices. In Sec.
III we develop a general field theory approach that we use
to understand the phase diagram in broad strokes. This
approach in particular allows us to understand the role
that vortices in the boson phase play in determining the
nature of the phase diagram. In Sec. IV we discuss a few
characteristic features possessed by the dipole conden-
sate, as well as how to detect its existence in experiment.
In Sec. V, we give a more detailed discussion of how the
exotic physics of the Bose-Einstein insulator may appear
in small systems due to finite-size effects. The following
sections VI,VII, and VIII discuss in detail the physics
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at integer, half-odd-integer, and generic filling fractions,
respectively. We conclude with a summary and outlook
in Sec. IX.
II. EXPERIMENTAL REALIZATIONS
Before discussing the physics of the DBHM Hamilto-
nian (1) in detail, we first briefly discuss pathways for
realizing dipole conserving dynamics in experiment.
The simplest and best-explored way of engineering a
dipole conserving model is to realize HDBHM as an ef-
fective model that describes the prethermal dynamics of
bosons in a strongly tilted optical lattice [4,5,8,9]. In
this context, the microscopic Hamiltonian one starts with
is
Htilted =tsp X
i
(b
ibi+1 +b
i+1bi) + X
i
V ini+HU,
(6)
where HUdenotes the Hubbard repulsion term, and V
is the strength of the tilt potential (which in practice is
created with a magnetic field gradient). In the strong
tilt limit where tsp/V, U/V 1,2energy conservation
prevents bosons from hopping freely, but does not forbid
coordinated hopping processes that leave the total boson
dipole moment invariant [Fig. 1(b)]. Perturbation the-
ory to third order [5,12] then produces the dipolar model
(1) with t3=t2
spU/V 2, t4= 0, and an additional nearest-
neighbor interaction (2t2/V 2)Pinini+1—see App. Bfor
the details. A nonzero t4will eventually be generated at
sixth order in perturbation theory (or at third order, if
one adds an additional nearest-neighbor Hubbard repul-
sion), but in the optical lattice context we generically
expect t4/t31. We note however that the DMRG
simulations that we discuss below are performed with a
nonzero t4(in fact for simplicity, we simply set t4=t3).
This is done both because one can imagine other physical
contexts in which an appreciable t4coupling is present,
and because the t4term moderately helps DMRG conver-
gence. In any case, the qualitative features of the t4= 0
and t3=t4models are largely the same, with the only
differences arising near certain phase transitions, and at
certain filling fractions (as will be discussed in Sec. VII).
An interesting aspect of the effective dipolar Hamilto-
nian that arises in this setup is that t3/U always scales
as (tsp/V )21 [33]. One may worry that this could
lead to problems when trying to explore the full phase
diagram, since we will be unable to access regimes in
which t3/U &1. This however does not appear to be
a deal-breaker, since all of the action in the DBHM will
turn out to occur at t3/U .0.1 (and at large fillings, the
dipole condensate in particular turns out to be realizable
at arbitrarily small t3/U).
2See e.g. [2932] for discussions of tilted Bose-Hubbard models in
regimes with weaker V.
Another possible realization of the 1d DBHM is in
bosonic quantum processors based on superconducting
resonators [3436], where the dipolar hopping terms can
be engineered directly, and there are no fundamental con-
straints on t3,4/U. In this setup there is no way to for-
bid single particle hopping terms on symmetry grounds
alone, and generically the Hamiltonian will contain a
term of the form
Hsp =t0X
i
(b
i+1bi+b
ibi+1).(7)
The presence of such dipole-violating terms is actually
not a deal-breaker, as long as t0is sufficiently small com-
pared to t3,4. Indeed, the fact that single bosons are
gapped throughout the entire phase diagram means that
a sufficiently small Hsp will always be unimportant, a
conclusion that we verify in DMRG.
III. MASTER FIELD THEORY
In the remainder of the main text, we will fix
t3=t4t(8)
for concreteness, which matches the choice made in the
numerics discussed below. Those places where setting
t4= 0 qualitatively changes the physics will be men-
tioned explicitly.
In this section we discuss a continuum field theory ap-
proach that we will use in later sections as a guide to
understand the phase diagram. Our field theory involves
two fields θand φ, which capture the long-wavelength
fluctuations of the density and phase, respectively. In
terms of these fields, the boson operator is
b=ρe, ρ =ρ+1
2π2
xθ, (9)
Note that density fluctuations are expressed as the double
derivative of θ(in the standard treatment [37] there is
only a single derivative). This gives the commutation
relations
[φ(x), ∂2
yθ(y)] = 2π(xy).(10)
The reason for writing the fluctuations in the density in
this way will become clear shortly.
Before discussing how to construct our field theory,
let us discuss how φ, θ transform under the relevant
symmetries at play. Dipole symmetry leaves θalone,
but acts as a coordinate-dependent shift of φ, mapping
U(1)D:φ(x)7→ φ(x) + λx for constant λ. Thus ei∂xφis
an order parameter for the dipole symmetry, since
U(1)D:ei∂xφ7→ eei∂xφ.(11)
The operators ei∂xθ,ecreate vortices3in the phase
3Since we are in 1d it is more correct to use the word ‘instanton’,
but we will stick to ‘vortex’ throughout.
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φand its gradient xφrespectively, which can be shown
using the commutation relation (B10). Vortices in xφ
are not necessarily objects that we are used to dealing
with, but indeed they are well-defined on the lattice [38],
and are the natural textures to consider in a continuum
limit where xφbecomes smooth but φdoes not (a limit
that dipole symmetry forces us to consider, as this turns
out to be relevant for describing the dipole condensate).
In a background of charge density ρvortices carry
momentum 2πρ, and so a translation through a dis-
tance δacts as Tδ:ei∂xθ7→ ei2πδn/mei∂xθ(recall that
ρ=n/m). To understand this, consider moving a
vortex created by ei∂xθ(x)through a distance δto the
right. Doing so passes the vortex over an amount of
charge equal to ρδ, which in our continuum notation is
created by an operator proportional to eiδρφ(x). Since
ei∂xθ(x)eρφ(x)=ei2πδρeρφ(x)ei∂xθ(x), a phase of ei2πδρ
is accumulated during this process. Consistent with this,
a more careful analysis in App. Ashows that
Tδ:θ(x)7→ θ(x+δ)+2πρxδ. (12)
For our discussion of the phases that occur at fractional
fillings, we will also need to discuss how θtransforms
under both site- and bond-centered reflections Rsand
Rb=T1/2RsT1/2. Using (12) and the fact that Rs:
ρ(x)7→ ρ(x), we see that
Rs:θ(x)7→ θ(x),
Rb:θ(x)7→ θ(x)π
2ρ. (13)
We now need to understand how to write down a field
theory in terms of φand θwhich faithfully captures
the physics of HDBHM . The most naive approach is to
rewrite HDBHM as
HDBHM =tX
i
(|bi+1bi1b2
i|2+|bi+2bi1bibi+1|2)
+X
i(U/2t)n2
it(nini+1 +nini+2 +nini+3),
(14)
and to then perform a gradient expansion. Using the
representation (9) and keeping the lowest order deriva-
tives of θand φ, this produces a continuum theory with
Hamiltonian density
H=KD
2(2
xφ)2+u
2(2
xθ)2,(15)
where we have defined the dipolar phase stiffness KDand
charge stiffness uas
KD4ρ2t, u U8t
(2π)2.(16)
Taking the above Hamiltonian density Has a starting
point and integrating out θproduces the Lagrangian of
the quantum Lifshitz model studied in Refs. [22,39],
which describes the BEI phase:
LBEI =Kτ
2(τφ)2+KD
2(2
xφ)2,(17)
where Kτ1/(8π2u).
The steps leading to (17) miss an essential part of the
physics, since they neglect vortices in the phase φ(as
well as vortices in the dipole phase xφ). In the regu-
lar Bose-Hubbard model, vortices can be accounted for
using the hydrodyanmic prescription introduced by Hal-
dane in Ref. [37]. Using our representation of the den-
sity fluctuations as 2
xθ/2π, a naive application of this
approach would lead to a Lagrangian containing cosines
of the form cos(l∂xθ), lN. This however turns out to
not fully account for the effects of vortices in the DBHM,
which require that the terms cos(lθ) be added as well.
The exact perscription for including vortices is worked
out carefully in App. Ausing lattice duality, wherein we
derive the effective Lagrangian
LDBHM =i
2πτφ(2πρ +2
xθ) + KD
2(2
xφ)2+u
2(2
xθ)2
yD,4mcos(4)ymcos(m∂xθ),
(18)
where the coupling constants yl, yD,l are given by the
l-fold vortex and dipole vortex fugacities
ylel2cKD/u, yD,l el2cDKD/u,(19)
where c, cDare non-universal O(1) constants (App. A
contains the derivation). The appearance of min the
term ymcos(m∂xθ) is due to (12), which ensures that
the leading translation-invariant interactions are those
which create m-fold vortices (recall ρ=n/m). The fac-
tor of 4 in yD,4mcos(4) is due to the bond-centered
reflection symmetry Rbwhich shifts θaccording to (13)
(with cos() being the most relevant cosine of θin the
absence of Rbsymmetry).
From the above expression (16) for u, we see that an
instability occurs when
t>tF BD U
8,(20)
which is precisely the condition given earlier in (5). When
t>tF BD,ubecomes negative, and the system is unsta-
ble against large density fluctuations—this leads to the
glassy phase discussed in the introduction. In the rest of
this paper, we will restrict our attention to values of tfor
which u > 0, where the above field theory description is
valid.
To understand the physics contained in the Lagrangian
LDBHM , the first order of business is to evaluate the im-
portance of the cosines appearing therein. It is easy to
check that at the free fixed point given by the quadratic
terms in LDBHM (the first line of (18)), cos(lθ) has ultra
short-ranged correlations in both space and time, for any
lZ. This is however not true for cos(l∂xθ), whose corre-
lation functions are constant at long distances, regardless
of l. This means that cos(m∂xθ) is always relevant, im-
plying that xθwill always pick up an expectation value
in the thermodynamic limit, and that vortices will con-
dense at all rational fillings. This is physically quite rea-
sonable due to dipole symmetry forbidding a (xφ)2term
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DipolecondensatesintiltedBose-HubbardchainsEthanLake,1Hyun-YongLee,2,3,4JungHoonHan,5andT.Senthil11DepartmentofPhysics,MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology,Cambridge,MA,021392DivisionofDisplayandSemiconductorPhysics,KoreaUniversity,Sejong30019,Korea3DepartmentofAppliedPhysics,GraduateSchool,KoreaUnive...

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