Physics – Condensed Matter – Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Scientific paper
2008-07-15
Phys. Rev. B 78, 224306 (2008)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
23 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.78.224306
A superglass is a phase of matter which is characterized at the same time by superfluidity and a frozen amorphous structure. We introduce a model of interacting bosons in three dimensions that displays this phase unambiguously and that can be analyzed exactly or using controlled approximations. Employing a mapping between quantum Hamiltonians and classical Fokker-Planck operators, we show that the ground state wavefunction of the quantum model is proportional to the Boltzmann measure of classical hard spheres. This connection allows us to obtain quantitative results on static and dynamic quantum correlation functions. In particular, by translating known results on the glassy dynamics of Brownian hard spheres we work out the properties of the superglass phase and of the quantum phase transition between the superfluid and the superglass phase.
Biroli Giulio
Chamon Claudio
Zamponi Francesco
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