Observation of subdiffusion in a disordered interacting system.

Phys Rev Lett

LENS and Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Firenze, and INO-CNR, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.

Published: June 2011

We study the transport dynamics of matter-waves in the presence of disorder and nonlinearity. An atomic Bose-Einstein condensate that is localized in a quasiperiodic lattice in the absence of atom-atom interaction shows instead a slow expansion with a subdiffusive behavior when a controlled repulsive interaction is added. The measured features of the subdiffusion are compared to numerical simulations and a heuristic model. The observations confirm the nature of subdiffusion as interaction-assisted hopping between localized states and highlight a role of the spatial correlation of the disorder.

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