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Observation of a Disordered Bosonic Insulator from Weak to Strong Interactions
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Observation of a Disordered Bosonic Insulator from Weak to Strong Interactions

Chiara D'Errico, Eleonora Lucioni, Luca Tanzi, Lorenzo Gori, Guillaume Roux, Ian P. McCulloch, Thierry Giamarchi, Massimo Inguscio and Giovanni Modugno
Physical review letters, Vol.113(9), p.095301
29/08/2014
PMID: 25215990

Abstract

Physical Sciences Physics Physics, Multidisciplinary Science & Technology
We employ ultracold atoms with controllable disorder and interaction to study the paradigmatic problem of disordered bosons in the full disorder-interaction plane. Combining measurements of coherence, transport and excitation spectra, we get evidence of an insulating regime extending from weak to strong interaction and surrounding a superfluidlike regime, in general agreement with the theory. For strong interaction, we reveal the presence of a strongly correlated Bose glass coexisting with a Mott insulator.

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