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SUBMITTER: Nguyen HQ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5128869 | biostudies-other | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nguyen H Q HQ Hollen S M SM Shainline J J Xu J M JM Valles J M JM
Scientific reports 20161130
Typically the disorder that alters the interference of particle waves to produce Anderson localization is potential scattering from randomly placed impurities. Here we show that disorder in the form of random gauge fields that act directly on particle phases can also drive localization. We present evidence of a superfluid bose glass to insulator transition at a critical level of this gauge field disorder in a nano-patterned array of amorphous Bi islands. This transition shows signs of metallic t ...[more]