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Disordered one-dimensional Bose-Fermi mixtures: The Bose-Fermi glass

Quantum Gases 2010-09-28 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We analyze an interacting Bose-Fermi mixture in a 1D disordered potential using a combination of renormalization group and variational methods. We obtain the complete phase diagram in the incommensurate case as a function of bosonic and inter-species interaction strengths, in the weak disorder limit. We find that the system is characterized by several phase transitions between superfluid and various glassy insulating states, including a new Bose-Fermi glass phase, where both species are coupled and localized. We show that the dynamical structure factor, as measured through Bragg scattering experiments, can distinguish between the various localized phases and probe their dynamics.

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@article{arxiv.1005.2483,
  title  = {Disordered one-dimensional Bose-Fermi mixtures: The Bose-Fermi glass},
  author = {François Crépin and Gergely Zaránd and Pascal Simon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.2483},
  year   = {2010}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures