arXiv · 1512.04238
Finite-temperature effects on interacting bosonic 1D systems in disordered lattices
Abstract
We analyze the finite-temperature effects on the phase diagram describing the insulating properties of interacting 1D bosons in a quasi-periodic lattice. We examine thermal effects by comparing experimental results to exact diagonalization for small-sized systems and to density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG) computations. At weak interactions, we find short thermal correlation lengths, indicating a substantial impact of temperature on the system coherence. Conversely, at strong interactions, the obtained thermal correlation lengths are significantly larger than the localization length, and the quantum nature of the T=0 Bose glass phase is preserved up to a crossover temperature that depends on the disorder strength. Furthermore, in the absence of disorder, we show how quasi-exact finite-T DMRG computations, compared to experimental results, can be employed to estimate the temperature, which is not directly accessible in the experiment.
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Lorenzo Gori, Thomas Barthel, Avinash Kumar, Eleonora Lucioni, Luca Tanzi, Massimo Inguscio, Giovanni Modugno, Thierry Giamarchi, Chiara D'Errico, Guillaume Roux. 2015-12-14. Finite-temperature effects on interacting bosonic 1D systems in disordered lattices. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.93.033650
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