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Phys Rev Lett. 2013 Nov 08;111(19):195301. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.195301. Epub 2013 Nov 07.

Emergence of glasslike dynamics for dissipative and strongly interacting bosons.

Physical review letters

Dario Poletti, Peter Barmettler, Antoine Georges, Corinna Kollath

Affiliations

  1. Singapore University of Technology and Design, 20 Dover Drive 138682, Singapore.

PMID: 24266477 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.195301

Abstract

We study the dynamics of a strongly interacting bosonic quantum gas in an optical lattice potential under the effect of a dissipative environment. We show that the interplay between the dissipative process and the Hamiltonian evolution leads to an unconventional dynamical behavior of local number fluctuations. In particular, we show, both analytically and numerically, the emergence of an anomalous diffusive evolution in configuration space at short times and, at long times, an unconventional dynamics dominated by rare events. Such rare events, common in disordered and frustrated systems, are due here to strong interactions. This complex two-stage dynamics reveals information on the level structure of the strongly interacting gas.

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