Quantum transitions from superfluid to insulating phases in disordered Bose systems

Abstract

By the example of Heisenberg $d$-dimensional disordered non-frustrated antiferromagnets, we discuss quantum transitions at $d\ge 2$ from magnetically ordered (superfluid) to various disorder-induced insulating phases (Bose-glass, Mott-glass, etc.) in Bose systems with quenched disorder. We perform a scaling consideration as well as a discussion based on the hydrodynamic description of long-wavelength excitations and on the assumption that the ordered part of the system shows fractal properties near the transition point. We propose that the scaling ansatz for the singular part of the free energy suggested before for the transition to the Bose-glass phase is applicable also for other transitions if the quenched disorder does not produce a local imbalance in sublattices magnetizations. We show using the scaling consideration that $\eta =2-z$ and $\beta =\nu d/2$, where $\eta$, $\beta$, and $\nu$, are critical exponents of the correlation function, the order parameter, and the correlation length, respectively, and $z$ is the dynamical critical index. These relations were missed in previous analytical discussions of Bose-glass and Mott-glass phases. They signify, in particular, that $z=d/2$ for the transition to the Mott-glass phase and that the density of states of localized excitations shows a superuniversal (i.e., independent of $d$) behavior near the transitions. Being derived solely from the scaling analysis, the above relations for $\eta$ and $\beta$ are valid also for the transition to the random-singlet phase.

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