Density wave propagation in a two-dimensional random dimer potential: From a single to a bipartite square lattice

Abstract

We study the propagation of a density perturbation in a weakly interacting boson gas confined on a lattice and in the presence of square dimerized impurities. Such a two-dimensional dual random dimer model (2D DRDM), previously introduced [Capuzzi, Gattobigio, and Vignolo, Phys. Rev. A 92, 053622 (2015)PLRAAN1050-294710.1103/PhysRevA.92.053622], is the disorder transition from a single square lattice, where impurities are absent, to a bipartite square lattice, where the number of impurities is maximum and coincides with half the number of lattice sites. We show that disorder correlations can play a crucial role in the dynamics for a broad range of parameters by allowing density fluctuations to propagate in the 2D DRDM lattice, even in the limit of strong disorder. In such a regime, the propagation speed depends on the percentage of impurities, interpolating between the speed in a single monoperiodic lattice and that in a bipartite one.