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Superfluid/Bose-glass transition in one dimension

Quantum Gases 2014-09-26 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We consider a one-dimensional system of interacting bosons in a random potential. At zero temperature, it can be either in the superfluid or in the insulating phase. We study the transition at weak disorder and moderate interaction. Using a systematic approach, we derive the renormalization group equations at two-loop order and discuss the phase diagram. We find the universal form of the correlation functions at the transitions and compute the logarithmic corrections to the main universal power-law behavior. In order to mimic large density fluctuations on a single site, we study a simplified model of disordered two-leg bosonic ladders with correlated disorder across the rung. Contrarily to the single-chain case, the latter system exhibits a transition between a superfluid and a localized phase where the exponents of the correlation functions at the transition do not take universal values.

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@article{arxiv.1404.0678,
  title  = {Superfluid/Bose-glass transition in one dimension},
  author = {Zoran Ristivojevic and Aleksandra Petkovic and Pierre Le Doussal and Thierry Giamarchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.0678},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

21 pages, 3 figures

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