Scientific Calendar Event



Starts 22 Apr 2010 12:30
Ends 22 Apr 2010 20:00
Central European Time
ICTP
Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room
Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)
We establish the phase diagram of the disordered three-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model at unit filling, which has been controversial for many years. We prove the absence of a direct quantum phase transition between a superfluid and a Mott insulator in a bosonic system with generic, bounded disorder: the Bose-glass phase always intervenes between the Mott insulating and superfluid phases. This conclusion follows from a general theorem of inclusions, which states that for any transition in a disordered system, one can always find rare regions of the competing phase on either side of the transition line. A highly nontrivial overall shape of the phase diagram is revealed with the worm algorithm. The phase diagram features a long superfluid finger at strong disorder and on-site interaction. Moreover, bosonic superfluidity is extremely robust against disorder in a broad range of interaction parameters; it persists in random potentials nearly 50 (!) times larger than the particle half-bandwidth.
  • M. Poropat