Recent studies on supersolidity in a single-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) have relied on the Lee-Huang-Yang (LHY) correction for stabilization of self-bound droplets, which, however, involves a high density inside the droplets, limiting the lifetime of the supersolid. Here we propose a two-component mixture of dipolar and nondipolar BECs, such as an ${}^{166}\mathrm{Er}\text{−}{}^{87}\mathrm{Rb}$ mixture, to create and stabilize a supersolid without the LHY correction, which can suppress the atomic loss and may allow observation of the long-time dynamics of the supersolid. In such a system, supersolidity can be controlled by the difference in the trap centers between the two components.

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• Dipolar gases
• Mixtures of atomic and/or molecular quantum gases
• Bose-Einstein condensates
• Supersolids