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Observation of a disordered bosonic insulator from weak to strong interactions

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2019-08-07 v1 Quantum Gases

Abstract

We employ ultracold atoms with controllable disorder and interaction to study the paradigmatic problem of disordered bosons in the full disorder-interaction plane. Combining measurements of coherence, transport and excitation spectra, we get evidence of an insulating regime extending from weak to strong interaction and surrounding a superfluid-like regime, in general agreement with the theory. For strong interaction, we reveal the presence of a strongly-correlated Bose glass coexisting with a Mott insulator.

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@article{arxiv.1405.1210,
  title  = {Observation of a disordered bosonic insulator from weak to strong interactions},
  author = {Chiara D'Errico and Eleonora Lucioni and Luca Tanzi and Lorenzo Gori and Guillaume Roux and Ian P. McCulloch and Thierry Giamarchi and Massimo Inguscio and Giovanni Modugno},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.1210},
  year   = {2019}
}