Quarter-filled supersolid and solid phases in the extended Bose-Hubbard model

We numerically study the ground state phase diagram of the two-dimensional hard-core Bose-Hubbard model with nearest-(V1) and next-nearest-neighbour (V2) repulsions. In particular, we focus on the quarter-filled phases where one supersolid and two solid phases are observed. Using both canonical and grand canonical quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods and a mean-field calculation, we provide evidence for the existence of a commensurate supersolid. Despite the two possible diagonal long-range orderings for the solid phase, only one kind of supersolid phase is found to be energetically stable. The competition between the two solid phases manifests itself as a first-order phase transition around 2V2 ∼ V1. The change of order parameters as a function of the chemical potential is also presented.