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Two-Dimensional Bose-Hubbard Model for Helium on Graphene

22 Feb 2021arXiv:2102.11288links table onlyarchive 2025-07-28

Jiangyong Yu, Ethan Lauricella, Mohamed Elsayed, Kenneth Shepherd Jr., Nathan S. Nichols, Todd Lombardi, Sang Wook Kim, Carlos Wexler, Juan M. Vanegas, Taras Lakoba, Valeri N. Kotov, Adrian Del Maestro

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An exciting development in the field of correlated systems is the possibility of realizing two-dimensional (2D) phases of quantum matter. For a systems of bosons, an example of strong correlations manifesting themselves in a 2D environment is provided by helium adsorbed on graphene. We construct the effective Bose-Hubbard model for this system which involves hard-core bosons (U≈∞), repulsive nearest-neighbor (V>0) and small attractive (V′<0) next-nearest neighbor interactions. The mapping onto the Bose-Hubbard model is accomplished by a variety of many-body techniques which take into account the strong He-He correlations on the scale of the graphene lattice spacing. Unlike the case of dilute ultracold atoms where interactions are effectively point-like, the detailed microscopic form of the short range electrostatic and long range dispersion interactions in the helium-graphene system are crucial for the emergent Bose-Hubbard description. The result places the ground state of the first layer of ⁴He adsorbed on graphene deep in the commensurate solid phase with 1/3 of the sites on the dual triangular lattice occupied. Because the parameters of the effective Bose-Hubbard model are very sensitive to the exact lattice structure, this opens up an avenue to tune quantum phase transitions in this solid-state system.

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