Published May 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Mean-field phase diagram of the one-dimensional Bose gas in a disorder potential

  • 1. Institute of Theoretical Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne (Switzerland)

Description

We study the quantum phase transition of the 1D weakly interacting Bose gas in the presence of disorder. We characterize the phase transition as a function of disorder and interaction strengths, by inspecting the long-range behavior of the one-body density matrix as well as the drop in the superfluid fraction. We focus on the properties of the low-energy Bogoliubov excitations that drive the phase transition and find that the transition to the insulator state is marked by a diverging density of states and a localization length that diverges as a power-law with power 1. We draw the phase diagram and we observe that the boundary between the superfluid and the insulator phase is characterized by two different algebraic relations. These can be explained analytically by considering the limiting cases of zero and infinite disorder correlation length.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
81
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 053603-053603.9
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

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