Measurement of the mobility edge for 3D Anderson localization

G Semeghini, M Landini, P Castilho, S Roy… - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
Anderson localization is a universal phenomenon affecting non-interacting quantum
particles in a disordered environment. In three spatial dimensions, theory predicts a …

Anomalous mobility edges in one-dimensional quasiperiodic models

T Liu, X **a, S Longhi, L Sanchez-Palencia - SciPost Physics, 2022 - scipost.org
Mobility edges, separating localized from extended states, are known to arise in the single-
particle energy spectrum of disordered systems in dimension strictly higher than two and …

Mobility edge for cold atoms in laser speckle potentials

D Delande, G Orso - Physical review letters, 2014 - APS
Using the transfer-matrix method, we numerically compute the precise position of the
mobility edge of atoms exposed to a laser speckle potential and study its dependence …

Anderson localization of ultracold atoms: Where is the mobility edge?

M Pasek, G Orso, D Delande - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
Recent experiments in noninteracting ultracold atoms in three-dimensional speckle
potentials have yielded conflicting results regarding the so-called mobility edge, ie, the …

Measurement of spectral functions of ultracold atoms in disordered potentials

VV Volchkov, M Pasek, V Denechaud, M Mukhtar… - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
We report on the measurement of the spectral functions of noninteracting ultracold atoms in
a three-dimensional disordered potential resulting from an optical speckle field. Varying the …

Localization of a spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensate in a bichromatic optical lattice

Y Cheng, G Tang, SK Adhikari - Physical Review A, 2014 - APS
We study the localization of a noninteracting and weakly interacting Bose-Einstein
condensate (BEC) with spin-orbit coupling loaded in a quasiperiodic bichromatic optical …

Nonvanishing subgap photocurrent as a probe of lifetime effects

D Kaplan, T Holder, B Yan - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
For semiconductors and insulators, it is commonly believed that in-gap transitions into
nonlocalized states are smoothly suppressed in the clean limit; ie, at zero temperature, their …

Three-dimensional Anderson localization in variable scale disorder

WR McGehee, SS Kondov, W Xu, JJ Zirbel… - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
We report on the impact of variable-scale disorder on 3D Anderson localization of a
noninteracting ultracold atomic gas. A spin-polarized gas of fermionic atoms is localized by …

Localization and spectral structure in two-dimensional quasicrystal potentials

Z Zhu, S Yu, D Johnstone, L Sanchez-Palencia - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
Quasicrystals, a fascinating class of materials with long-range but nonperiodic order, have
revolutionized our understanding of solid-state physics due to their unique properties at the …

Cloud shape of a molecular Bose–Einstein condensate in a disordered trap: a case study of the dirty boson problem

B Nagler, M Radonjić, S Barbosa, J Koch… - New Journal of …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate, both experimentally and theoretically, the static geometric properties of a
harmonically trapped Bose–Einstein condensate of 6 Li 2 molecules in laser speckle …