arXiv:1705.07166 · Physical review. B./Physical review. B
Competing Bose-glass physics with disorder-induced Bose-Einstein condensation in the doped S=1 antiferromagnet Ni(Cl1−xBrx)2−4SC(NH2)2 at high magnetic fields
Maxime Dupont, Sylvain Capponi, M. Horvatić, Nicolas Laflorencie
Abstract
We study the interplay between disorder and interactions for emergent bosonic degrees of freedom induced by an external magnetic field in the Br-doped spin-gapped antiferromagnetic material $\mathrm{Ni}{({\mathrm{Cl}}_{1\ensuremath{-}x}{\mathrm{Br}}_{x})}_{2}\ensuremath{-}4\mathrm{SC}{({\mathrm{NH}}_{2})}_{2}$ ($\mathrm{DTN}X$). Building on nuclear magnetic resonance experiments at high magnetic field [A. Orlova et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 067203 (2017)], we describe the localization of isolated impurity states, providing a realistic theoretical modeling for $\mathrm{DTN}X$. Going beyond single impurity localization we use quantum Monte Carlo simulations to explore many-body effects from which pairwise effective interactions lead to a (impurity-induced) Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) revival [M. Dupont, S. Capponi, and N. Laflorencie, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 067204 (2017)]. We further address the question of the existence of a many-body localized Bose-glass (BG) phase in $\mathrm{DTN}X$, which is found to compete with a series of a new kind of BEC regimes made out of the multi-impurity states. The global magnetic field--temperature phase diagram of $\mathrm{DTN}X$ reveals a very rich structure for low impurity concentration, with consecutive disorder-induced BEC minidomes separated by intervening many-body localized BG regimes. Upon increasing the impurity level, multiple mini-BEC phases start to overlap, while intermediate BG regions vanish.