Competing phases, phase separation, and coexistence in the extended one-dimensional bosonic Hubbard model

We study the phase diagram of the one-dimensional bosonic Hubbard model with contact (U) and near neighbor (V) interactions focusing on the gapped Haldane insulating (HI) phase which is characterized by an exotic nonlocal order parameter. The parameter regime (U, V, and mu) where this phase exists and how it competes with other phases, such as the supersolid (SS) phase, is incompletely understood. We use the stochastic Green function quantum Monte Carlo algorithm as well as the density matrix renormalization group to map out the phase diagram. Our main conclusions are that the HI exists only at rho = 1, the SS phase exists for a very wide range of parameters (including commensurate fillings), and displays power law decay in the one-body Green function. In addition, we show that at fixed integer density, the system exhibits phase separation in the (U, V) plane.