The insulating phases and superfluid-insulator transition of disordered boson chains
Abstract
Using a strong disorder real-space renormalization group (RG), we study the phase diagram of a fully disordered chain of interacting bosons. Since this approach does not suffer from run-away flows, it allows a direct study of the insulating phases, which are not accessible in a weak disorder perturbative treatment. We find that the universal properties of the insulating phase are determined by the details and symmetries of the onsite chemical-potential disorder. Three insulating phases are possible: (i) an incompressible Mott glass with a finite superfluid susceptibility, (ii) a random-singlet glass with diverging compressibility and superfluid susceptibility, (iii) a Bose glass with a finite compressibility but diverging superfluid susceptibility. In addition to characterizing the insulating phases, we show that the superfluid-insulator transition is always of the Kosterlitz-Thouless universality class.
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@article{arxiv.0711.2070,
title = {The insulating phases and superfluid-insulator transition of disordered boson chains},
author = {Ehud Altman and Yariv Kafri and Anatoli Polkovnikov and Gil Refael},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.2070},
year = {2009}
}
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