A Superglass Phase of Interacting Bosons

ORAL

Abstract

Motivated by recent experimental suggestions of glassy behavior in supersolid Helium, we introduce a Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian with random disordered interactions as a model to study the interplay of superfluidity and glassiness in a system of three-dimensional bosons. Solving the model using large-scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations, we show that these disordered interactions promote a stable superglass phase, where superflow and glassy density localization coexist in equilibrium without exhibiting phase separation. The robustness of the superglass phase is underlined by its existence in a replica mean-field calculation on the infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian.

Authors

  • Roger Melko

    • University of Waterloo
  • Ka-Ming Tam

    • University of Waterloo
  • Scott Geraedts

    • University of Waterloo
  • Stephen Inglis

    • University of Waterloo
  • Michel Gingras

    • University of Waterloo