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arXiv:1912.08236 · Physical review. E

Bose-glass phase of a one-dimensional disordered Bose fluid: Metastable states, quantum tunneling, and droplets

N. Dupuis, Romain Daviet

Published Apr 30, 2020• 19 citations
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Abstract

We study a one-dimensional disordered Bose fluid using bosonization, the replica method, and a nonperturbative functional renormalization-group approach. We find that the Bose-glass phase is described by a fully attractive strong-disorder fixed point characterized by a singular disorder correlator whose functional dependence assumes a cuspy form that is related to the existence of metastable states. At nonzero momentum scale k, quantum tunneling between the ground state and low-lying metastable states leads to a rounding of the cusp singularity into a quantum boundary layer (QBL). The width of the QBL depends on an effective Luttinger parameter K_{k}∼k^{θ} that vanishes with an exponent θ=z-1 related to the dynamical critical exponent z. The QBL encodes the existence of rare "superfluid" regions, controls the low-energy dynamics, and yields a (dissipative) conductivity vanishing as ω^{2} in the low-frequency limit. These results reveal the glassy properties (pinning, "shocks," or static avalanches) of the Bose-glass phase and can be understood within the "droplet" picture put forward for the description of glassy (classical) systems.

DOI
10.1103/physreve.101.042139

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