Publication
Title
Fragmentation and the Bose-glass phase transition of the disordered one-dimensional Bose gas
Author
Abstract
 We investigate the superfluid-insulator quantum phase transition in a disordered one-dimensional Bose gas in the mean-field limit by studying the probability distribution of the density. The superfluid phase is characterized by a vanishing probability to have zero density, whereas a nonzero probability marks the insulator phase. This relation is derived analytically and confirmed by a numerical study. This fragmentation criterion is particularly suited for detecting the phase transition in experiments. When a harmonic trap is included, the transition to the insulating phase can be extracted from the statistics of the local density distribution.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Physical review : A : atomic, molecular and optical physics. - Lancaster, Pa, 1990 - 2015
Publication
Lancaster, Pa : 2011
ISSN
1094-1622 [online]
1050-2947 [print]
Volume/pages
83 :3 (2011) , 5 p.
Article Reference
033626
Medium
E-only publicatie
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