2012/07/21 by J. Towers, Towers, J., S. C. Cormack +3
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas) #cond-mat.quant-gas
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1207.5095
arxiv created 2012/07/21 · arxiv updated 2012/07/24
Anderson localization was first investigated in the context of electrons in solids. One of the successes was in explaining the puzzle of negative magneto-resistance - as early as the 1940s it had been observed that electron diffusion rates in some materials can increase with the application of a magnetic field. Anderson localization has now been demonstrated in ultra-cold atomic gases. We present a theoretical study of the two-dimensional ultra-cold Bose gas in the presence of disorder, to which we apply a synthetic magnetic field. We demonstrate that, in the ballistic transport regime this leads to positive magneto-resistance and that, in the diffusive and strong localization regimes, can also lead to negative magneto-resistance. We propose experimental scenarios to observe these effects.