Enhancing quantum coherence with short-range correlated disorder

Abstract

We introduce a two-dimensional short-range correlated disorder that is the natural generalization of the well-known one-dimensional dual random dimer model [D. H. Dunlap et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 88 (1990)]. We demonstrate that, as in one dimension, this model induces a localization-delocalization transition in the single-particle spectrum. Moreover we show that the effect of such a disorder on a weakly interacting boson gas is to enhance the condensate spatial homogeneity and delocalization and to increase the condensate fraction around an effective resonance of the two-dimensional dual dimers. This study proves that short-range correlations of a disordered potential can enhance the quantum coherence of a weakly interacting many-body system.