arXiv · 1903.07297
Glassy Dynamics from Quark Confinement: Atomic Quantum Simulation of Gauge-Higgs Model on Lattice
Abstract
In the previous works, we proposed atomic quantum simulations of the U(1) gauge-Higgs model by ultra-cold Bose gases. By studying extended Bose-Hubbard models (EBHMs) including long-range repulsions, we clarified the locations of the confinement, Coulomb and Higgs phases. In this paper, we study the EBHM with nearest-neighbor repulsions in one and two dimensions at large fillings by the Gutzwiller variational method. We obtain phase diagrams and investigate dynamical behavior of electric flux from the gauge-theoretical point of view. We also study if the system exhibits glassy quantum dynamics in the absence and presence of quenched disorder. We explain that the obtained results have a natural interpretation in the gauge theory framework. Our results suggest important perspective on many-body localization in strongly-correlated systems. They are also closely related to anomalously slow dynamics observed by recent experiments performed on Rydberg atom chain, and our study indicates existence of similar phenomenon in two-dimensional space.
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Jonghoon Park, Yoshihito Kuno, Ikuo Ichinose. 2019-07-28. Glassy Dynamics from Quark Confinement: Atomic Quantum Simulation of Gauge-Higgs Model on Lattice. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.100.013629
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