A striking property of a
single-component superfluid under rotation, is that a broken symmetry
in the order parameter results in a broken translational symmetry, a
vortex lattice. If translational symmetry is restored, the phase
of the order parameter disorders and the broken symmetry in the order
parameter is restored. We show that for Bose-Condensate mixtures on
optical lattices (which may possess a negative dissipationless
intercomponent drag), a new situation arises. A phase disordered
nonsuperfluid component can break translational symmetry in response to
rotation due to interaction with a superfluid component. This state is
a modulated vortex liquid which breaks translational symmetry in the
direction transverse to the rotation vector.