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Vincent P Michal1, Igor L Aleiner2, Boris L Altshuler3
1Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud and Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France;
Abstract:
We consider the many-body localization-delocalization transition for strongly interacting one-dimensional disordered bosons and construct the full picture of finite temperature behavior of this system. This picture shows two insulator-fluid transitions at any finite temperature when varying the interaction strength. At weak interactions, an increase in the interaction strength leads to insulator [Formula: see text] fluid transition, and, for large interactions, there is a reentrance to the insulator regime. It is feasible to experimentally verify these predictions by tuning the interaction strength with the use of Feshbach or confinement-induced resonances, for example, in (7)Li or (39)K.
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