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Mott Transition for a Lieb-Liniger Gas in a Shallow Quasiperiodic Potential: Delocalization Induced by Disorder

Published inPhysical Review Letters, vol. 133, no. 12, 123401
First online date2024-09-19
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Disorder or quasidisorder is known to favor localization in many-body Bose systems. Here, in contrast, we demonstrate an anomalous delocalization effect induced by incommensurability in quasiperiodic lattices. Loading ultracold atoms in two shallow periodic lattices with equal amplitude and either equal or incommensurate spatial periods, we show the onset of a Mott transition not only in the periodic case but also in the quasiperiodic case. Switching from periodic to quasiperiodic potential with the same amplitude, we find that the Mott insulator turns into a delocalized superfluid. Our experimental results agree with quantum Monte Carlo calculations, showing this anomalous delocalization induced by the interplay between the disorder and interaction.

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YAO, Hepeng et al. Mott Transition for a Lieb-Liniger Gas in a Shallow Quasiperiodic Potential: Delocalization Induced by Disorder. In: Physical Review Letters, 2024, vol. 133, n° 12, p. 123401. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.123401
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