Stripes, topological order, and deconfinement in a planar t-Jz model

Smakov, J.; Batista, C. D.; Ortiz, G.

Stripes, topological order, and deconfinement in a planar t-Jz model

Authors

Smakov, J.

Batista, C. D.

Ortiz, G.

Description

We determine the quantum phase diagram of a two-dimensional bosonic t-Jz model as a function of the lattice anisotropy gamma, using a quantum Monte Carlo loop algorithm. We show analytically that the low-energy sectors of the bosonic and the fermionic t-Jz models become equivalent in the limit of small gamma. In this limit, the ground state represents a static stripe phase characterized by a non-zero value of a topological order parameter. This phase remains up to intermediate values of gamma, where there is a quantum phase transition to a phase-segregated state or a homogeneous superfluid with dynamic stripe fluctuations depending on the ratio Jz/t.
4 pages, 5 figures (2 in color). Final version