Ultracold bosons in lattices with binary disorder

Details Ultracold bosons in lattices with binary disorder Ultracold bosons in lattices with binary disorder

2008-01-15

arxiv.org/abs/0801.2343v2

Phys.Rev.A 77, 053609 (2008)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.77.053609

Quantum phases of ultracold bosons with repulsive interactions in lattices in the presence of quenched disorder are investigated. The disorder is assumed to be caused by the interaction of the bosons with impurity atoms having a large effective mass. The system is described by the Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian with random on-site energies which have a discrete binary probability distribution. The phase diagram at zero temperature is calculated using several methods like a strong-coupling expansion, an exact numerical diagonalization, and a Bose-Fermi mapping valid in the hard-core limit. It is shown that the Mott-insulator phase exists for any strength of disorder in contrast to the case of continuous probability distribution. We find that the compressibility of the Bose glass phase varies in a wide range and can be extremely low. Furthermore, we evaluate experimentally accessible quantities like the momentum distribution, the static and dynamic structure factors, and the density of excited states. The influence of finite temperature is discussed as well.

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