Stable Dilute Supersolid of Two-Dimensional Dipolar Bosons

Phys Rev Lett. 2015 Aug 14;115(7):075303. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.075303. Epub 2015 Aug 14.

Abstract

We consider two-dimensional bosonic dipoles oriented perpendicularly to the plane. On top of the usual two-body contact and long-range dipolar interactions we add a contact three-body repulsion as expected, in particular, for dipoles in the bilayer geometry with tunneling. The three-body repulsion is crucial for stabilizing the system, and we show that our model allows for stable continuous space supersolid states in the dilute regime and calculate the zero-temperature phase diagram.