Exploring molecular supersolidity via exact and mean-field theories: single microwave shielding

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18051v2
• Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 14:57:47 GMT
• Title: Exploring molecular supersolidity via exact and mean-field theories: single microwave shielding
• Authors: Tiziano Arnone Cardinale, Thomas Bland, Stephanie M. Reimann,
• Abstract summary: We develop an extended Gross-Pitaevskii framework for bosonic molecules under single microwave shielding.<n>We benchmark it against exact Quantum Monte Carlo simulations.<n>We show that elliptic microwave polarization induces direction-dependent superfluidity--absent in cylindrically symmetric systems.
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• Abstract: Ultracold polar molecules with microwave shielding provide a powerful platform for exploring quantum many-body physics with strong, anisotropic interactions. We develop an extended Gross-Pitaevskii framework for bosonic molecules under single microwave shielding, incorporating effective interactions and quantum fluctuations, and benchmark it against exact Quantum Monte Carlo simulations. In the regime of positive scattering lengths, our approach captures superfluid, supersolid, and droplet phases with excellent accuracy. We show that elliptic microwave polarization induces direction-dependent superfluidity--absent in cylindrically symmetric systems. A quasi-1D theory reveals that roton softening and instabilities can be controlled via ellipticity, consistent with recent experiments. Furthermore, we find that the nature of the superfluid-to-supersolid transition is strongly influenced by the ellipticity: the transition is sharp at low ellipticity and continuous at higher values. This tunability offers a potential route for low entropy preparation of molecular supersolids via adiabatic ramps. While double shielding is often used experimentally, our results demonstrate that single-shielded molecules already offer rich, controllable behavior, laying the groundwork for future studies with more complex shielding schemes.

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