Observation of a disordered bosonic insulator from weak to strong interactions.

نویسندگان

  • Chiara D'Errico
  • Eleonora Lucioni
  • Luca Tanzi
  • Lorenzo Gori
  • Guillaume Roux
  • Ian P McCulloch
  • Thierry Giamarchi
  • Massimo Inguscio
  • Giovanni Modugno
چکیده

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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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Physical review letters

دوره 113 9  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014