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Quantum simulations of the superfluid-insulator transition for two-dimensional, disordered, hard-core bosons

Condensed Matter 2009-10-22 v1

Abstract

We introduce two novel quantum Monte Carlo methods and employ them to study the superfluid-insulator transition in a two-dimensional system of hard-core bosons. One of the methods is appropriate for zero temperature and is based upon Green's function Monte Carlo; the other is a finite-temperature world-line cluster algorithm. In each case we find that the dynamical exponent is consistent with the theoretical prediction of z=2z=2 by Fisher and co-workers.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9409112,
  title  = {Quantum simulations of the superfluid-insulator transition for two-dimensional, disordered, hard-core bosons},
  author = {Shiwei Zhang and N. Kawashima and J. Carlson and J. E. Gubernatis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9409112},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Revtex, 10 pages, 3 figures (postscript files attached at end, separated by %%%%%% Fig # %%%%%, where # is 1-3). LA-UR-94-2708