Microscopic Wave Functions of Spin Singlet and Nematic Mott States of Spin-One Bosons in High Dimensional Bipartite Lattices

Abstract

We present microscopic wave functions of spin singlet Mott insulating states and nematic Mott insulating states. We also investigate quantum phase transitions between the spin singlet Mott phase and the nematic Mott phase in both large-N limit and small-N limit (N being the number of particles per site) in high dimensional bipartite lattices. In the mean field approximation employed in this article we find that phase transitions are generally weakly first order.

8 pages, 6 figures; final version, to appear in PRB