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| author | Russ, Phil Yan, Mi Kowalski, Nicholas Wadleigh, Laura Scarola, Vito W. DeMarco, Brian |
| author_facet | Russ, Phil Yan, Mi Kowalski, Nicholas Wadleigh, Laura Scarola, Vito W. DeMarco, Brian |
| contents | Disorder can be applied to transform conducting to insulating states by localizing individual quantum particles. The interplay between disorder and interactions in many-particle systems leads to a richer tapestry of quantum phase transitions. Here, we report the measurement in an ultracold lattice gas of a disorder-induced transition from a state with small disorder-independent compressibility to a state for which compressibility increases with disorder. At zero temperature this is the transition from a Mott insulator (MI) to a Bose glass (BG), both of which are insulating states. This transformation is observed using measurements of core compressibility. By determining how double occupancy changes with atom number, we identify the threshold disorder strength required to switch from disorder-independent MI-like to disorder-dependent BG-like compressible behavior. |
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| spellingShingle | Compressibility measurement of the thermal MI--BG transition in an optical lattice Russ, Phil Yan, Mi Kowalski, Nicholas Wadleigh, Laura Scarola, Vito W. DeMarco, Brian Quantum Gases Quantum Physics Disorder can be applied to transform conducting to insulating states by localizing individual quantum particles. The interplay between disorder and interactions in many-particle systems leads to a richer tapestry of quantum phase transitions. Here, we report the measurement in an ultracold lattice gas of a disorder-induced transition from a state with small disorder-independent compressibility to a state for which compressibility increases with disorder. At zero temperature this is the transition from a Mott insulator (MI) to a Bose glass (BG), both of which are insulating states. This transformation is observed using measurements of core compressibility. By determining how double occupancy changes with atom number, we identify the threshold disorder strength required to switch from disorder-independent MI-like to disorder-dependent BG-like compressible behavior. |
| title | Compressibility measurement of the thermal MI--BG transition in an optical lattice |
| topic | Quantum Gases Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16466 |