Superfluid-insulator transition of disordered bosons in one-dimension

Details Superfluid-insulator transition of disordered bosons in one-dimension Superfluid-insulator transition of disordered bosons in one-dimension

2009-09-22

arxiv.org/abs/0909.4096v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

16 pages

Scientific paper

We study the superfluid-insulator transition in a one dimensional system of interacting bosons, modeled as a disordered Josephson array, using a strong randomness real space renormalization group technique. Unlike perturbative methods, this approach does not suffer from run-away flows and allows us to study the complete phase diagram. We show that the superfluid insulator transition is always Kosterlitz- Thouless like in the way that length and time scales diverge at the critical point. Interestingly however, we find that the transition at strong disorder occurs at a non universal value of the Luttinger parameter, which depends on the disorder strength. This result places the transition in a universality class different from the weak disorder transition first analyzed by Giamarchi and Schulz [Europhys. Lett. {\bf 3}, 1287 (1987)]. While the details of the disorder potential are unimportant at the critical point, the type of disorder does influence the properties of the insulating phases. We find three classes of insulators which arise for different classes of disorder potential. For disorder only in the charging energies and Josephson coupling constants, at integer filling we find an incompressible but gapless Mott glass phase. If both integer and half integer filling factors are allowed then the corresponding phase is a random singlet insulator, which has a divergent compressibility. Finally in a generic disorder potential the insulator is a Bose glass with a finite compressibility.

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