  We consider two species of hard-core bosons with density dependent hopping in
a one-dimensional optical lattice, for which we propose experimental
realizations using time-periodic driving. The quantum phase diagram for
half-integer filling is determined by combining different advanced numerical
simulations with analytic calculations. We find that a reduction of the
density-dependent hopping induces a Mott-insulator to superfluid transition.
For negative hopping a previously unknown state is found, where one species
induces a gauge phase of the other species, which leads to a superfluid phase
of gauge-paired particles. The corresponding experimental signatures are
discussed.
