Bose-Hubbard models with on-site and nearest-neighbor interactions: Exactly solvable case

Abstract: We study the discrete spectrum of the two-particle Schr\"odinger operator $\hat H_{\mu\lambda}(K),$ $K\in\mathbb{T}^2,$ associated to the Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian $\hat {\mathbb H}{\mu\lambda}$ of a system of two identical bosons interacting on site and nearest-neighbor sites in the two dimensional lattice $\mathbb{Z}^2$ with interaction magnitudes $\mu\in\mathbb{R}$ and $\lambda\in\mathbb{R},$ respectively. We completely describe the spectrum of $\hat H{\mu\lambda}(0)$ and establish the optimal lower bound for the number of eigenvalues of $\hat H_{\mu\lambda}(K)$ outside its essential spectrum for all values of $K\in\mathbb{T}^2.$ Namely, we partition the $(\mu,\lambda)$-plane such that in each connected component of the partition the number of bound states of $\hat H_{\mu\lambda}(K)$ below or above its essential spectrum cannot be less than the corresponding number of bound states of $\hat H_{\mu\lambda}(0)$ below or above its essential spectrum.