Physics – Condensed Matter – Other Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2006-08-17
Phys. Rev. B 75, 144512 (2007)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Other Condensed Matter
9 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B; abstract, ``introduction'', and ``discussion and conclusions'' sections were mo
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.75.144512
In recent experiments on thin $^4$He films absorbed to rough surfaces Luhman and Hallock [D.R. Luhman, and R.B. Hallock, Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{93}, 086106 (2004)] attempted to observe KT features of the superfluid--normal transition of this strongly disordered 2D bosonic system. It came as a surprise that while peak of dissipation was measured for a wide range of surface roughness there were no indications of the theoretically expected universal jump of the areal superfluid density for the strongly disordered samples. We test the hypothesis that this unusual behavior is a manifestation of finite-size effects by numerical study of the corresponding 2D bosonic model with strong diagonal disorder. We demonstrate that the discontinuous features of the underlying KT transition are severely smoothed out for finite system sizes (or finite frequency measurements). We resolve the universal discontinuity of the areal superfluid density by fitting our data to the KT renormalization group equations for finite systems. In analogy to our simulations, we suggest that in experiments on strongly disordered 2D bosonic systems the very existence of the KT scenario can and should be revealed only from a proper finite-size scaling of the data (for $^4$He films finite-size scaling can be effectively controlled by the scaling of finite frequency of measurements). We also show relevance of our conclusions for a wider class of systems, such as superconducting granular films, Josephson junction arrays, and ultracold atomic gases, where similar difficulties appear in experiments designed to verify KT transition (especially in disordered cases).
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