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arXiv:2001.05682 · Europhysics Letters (EPL)

Is there a Mott-glass phase in a one-dimensional disordered quantum fluid with linearly confining interactions?

N. Dupuis

Published Jul 3, 2020• 12 citations
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Abstract

We study a one-dimensional disordered quantum fluid with linearly confining interactions (disordered Schwinger model) using bosonization and the nonperturbative functional renormalization group. We find that the long-range interactions make the Anderson-insulator (or, for bosons, the Bose-glass) fixed point (corresponding to a compressible state with a gapless optical conductivity) unstable, even if the latter may control the flow at intermediate energy scales. The stable fixed point describes an incompressible ground state with a gapped optical conductivity similar to a Mott insulator. These results disagree with the Gaussian variational method that predicts a Mott glass, namely a state with vanishing compressibility but a gapless optical conductivity.

DOI
10.1209/0295-5075/130/56002

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