Greschner, Sebastian; Piraud, M.; Heidrich-Meisner, F.; McCulloch, I.P.; Schollwöck, U.; Vekua, T.
(College Park, MD : American Physical Society, 2016)
We study the quantum phases of bosons with repulsive contact interactions on a two-leg ladder in the presence of a uniform Abelian gauge field. The model realizes many interesting states, including Meissner phases, vortex ...