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Griffiths Physics in an Ultracold Bose Gas

Quantum Gases 2019-07-18 v4 Atomic Physics

Abstract

Coupled XY model systems consisting of three-dimensional (3D) systems with disordered interlayer physics are of significant theoretical interest. We realize a set of coupled quasi-2D layers of 87^{87}Rb in the presence of disordered inter-layer coupling. This is achieved with our high bandwidth arbitrary optical lattice to obviate restrictions on the dimensionality of disorder with speckle-generated optical fields. We identify phase crossover regions compatible with the existence of a pair of intermediate Griffiths phases between a thermal state and the emergence of bulk 3D superfluidity.

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@article{arxiv.1806.07434,
  title  = {Griffiths Physics in an Ultracold Bose Gas},
  author = {M. E. W. Reed and Z. S. Smith and Aftaab Dewan and S. L. Rolston},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.07434},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

7 pages, 8 figures; updated to match published version

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