Propagation of collective pair excitations in disordered Bose superfluids

Samuel Lellouch, Lih King Lim, Laurent Sanchez-Palencia

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Abstract

We study the effect of disorder on the propagation of collective excitations in a disordered Bose superfluid. We incorporate local-density depletion induced by strong disorder at the mean-field level and formulate the transport of the excitations in terms of a screened scattering problem. We show that the competition of disorder, screening, and density depletion induces a strongly nonmonotonic energy dependence of the disorder parameter. In three dimensions, it results in a rich localization diagram with four different classes of mobility spectra, characterized by either no or up to three mobility edges. Implications on experiments with disordered ultracold atoms are discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Article number043611
JournalPhysical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Volume92
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 16 Oct 2015
Externally publishedYes

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