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Anomalous quantum glass of bosons in a random potential in two dimensions

Quantum Gases 2015-04-14 v4 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

We present a quantum Monte Carlo study of the "quantum glass" phase of the 2D Bose-Hubbard model with random potentials at filling ρ=1\rho=1. In the narrow region between the Mott and superfluid phases the compressibility has the form κexp(b/Tα)+c\kappa \sim {\rm exp}(-b/T^\alpha)+c with α<1\alpha <1 and cc vanishing or very small. Thus, at T=0T=0 the system is either incompressible (a Mott glass) or nearly incompressible (a Mott-glass-like anomalous Bose glass). At stronger disorder, where a glass reappears from the superfluid, we find a conventional highly compressible Bose glass. On a path connecting these states, away from the superfluid at larger Hubbard repulsion, a change of the disorder strength by only 10%10\% changes the low-temperature compressibility by more than four orders of magnitude, lending support to two types of glass states separated by a phase transition or a sharp cross-over.

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@article{arxiv.1110.3213,
  title  = {Anomalous quantum glass of bosons in a random potential in two dimensions},
  author = {Yancheng Wang and Wenan Guo and Anders W. Sandvik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.3213},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Published version including supplementary material, 11 pages total, 15 figures