Universal superfluid transition and transport properties of two-dimensional dirty bosons

Giuseppe Carleo1, Guilhem Boéris, Markus Holzmann

  • 1Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d'Optique, CNRS, Univ Paris Sud 11, 2 avenue Augustin Fresnel, F-91127 Palaiseau cedex, France.

Physical Review Letters
|August 20, 2013
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