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Superfluid-Insulator Transition in Commensurate Disordered Bosonic Systems: Large-Scale Worm Algorithm Simulations
Physics Review Letters
  • Nikolai Prokof'ev, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
  • Boris Svistunov, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Publication Date
2004
Abstract
We report results of large-scale Monte Carlo simulations of superfluid-insulator transitions in disordered commensurate 2D bosonic systems. In the off-diagonal disorder case, we find that the transition is to a gapless incompressible insulator, and its dynamical critical exponent is z=1.5(2). In the diagonal-disorder case, we prove the conjecture that rare statistical fluctuations are inseparable from critical fluctuations on the largest scales and ultimately result in crossover to the generic universality class (apparently with z=2). However, even at strong disorder, the universal behavior sets in only at very large space-time distances. This explains why previous studies of smaller clusters mimicked a direct superfluid–Mott-insulator transition.
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This is the pre-published version harvested from ArXiv. The published version is located at http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v92/i1/e015703
Citation Information
Nikolai Prokof'ev and Boris Svistunov. "Superfluid-Insulator Transition in Commensurate Disordered Bosonic Systems: Large-Scale Worm Algorithm Simulations" Physics Review Letters Vol. 92 Iss. 1 (2004)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/nikolai_prokofev/76/