Observation of a disordered bosonic insulator from weak to strong interactions.
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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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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Physical review letters
دوره 113 9 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014