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Luca Tanzi1, Eleonora Lucioni, Saptarishi Chaudhuri
1LENS and Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Firenze, and CNR-INO 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
Abstract:
We investigate the momentum-dependent transport of 1D quasicondensates in quasiperiodic optical lattices. We observe a sharp crossover from a weakly dissipative regime to a strongly unstable one at a disorder-dependent critical momentum. In the limit of nondisordered lattices the observations suggest a contribution of quantum phase slips to the dissipation. We identify a set of critical disorder and interaction strengths for which such critical momentum vanishes, separating a fluid regime from an insulating one. We relate our observation to the predicted zero-temperature superfluid-Bose glass transition.
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