Phase diagram of the disordered Bose-Hubbard model

Details Phase diagram of the disordered Bose-Hubbard model Phase diagram of the disordered Bose-Hubbard model

2009-09-25

arxiv.org/abs/0909.4593v1

Phys. Rev. B 80, 214519 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

9 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.80.214519

We establish the phase diagram of the disordered three-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model at unity filling, which has been controversial for many years. The theorem of inclusions, proven in Ref. [1], states that the Bose glass phase always intervenes between the Mott insulating and superfluid phases. Here, we note that assumptions on which the theorem is based exclude phase transitions between gapped (Mott insulator) and gapless phases (Bose glass). The apparent paradox is resolved through a unique mechanism: such transitions have to be of the Griffiths type when the vanishing of the gap at the critical point is due to a zero concentration of rare regions where extreme fluctuations of disorder mimic a {\it regular} gapless system. An exactly solvable random transverse field Ising model in one dimension is used to illustrate the point. A highly non-trivial overall shape of the phase diagram is revealed with the worm algorithm. The phase diagram features a long superfluid finger at strong disorder and on-site interaction. Moreover, bosonic superfluidity is extremely robust against disorder in a broad range of interaction parameters; it persists in random potentials nearly 50 (!) times larger than the particle half-bandwidth. Finally, we comment on the feasibility of obtaining this phase diagram in cold-atom experiments, which work with trapped systems at finite temperature.

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