Quantum critical phenomena of long-range interacting bosons in a time-dependent random potential

Kihong Kim
1999 Physical Review B (Condensed Matter)  
We study the superfluid-insulator transition of a particle-hole symmetric system of long-range interacting bosons in a time-dependent random potential in two dimensions, using the momentum-shell renormalization-group method. We find a new stable fixed point with non-zero values of the parameters representing the short- and long-range interactions and disorder when the interaction is asymptotically logarithmic. This is contrasted to the non-random case with a logarithmic interaction, where the
more » ... ansition is argued to be first-order, and to the 1/r Coulomb interaction case, where either a first-order transition or an XY-like transition is possible depending on the parameters. We propose that our model may be relevant in studying the vortex liquid-vortex glass transition of interacting vortex lines in point-disordered type-II superconductors.
doi:10.1103/physrevb.60.r742 fatcat:wq65xxr6ojckrky7lbv2u2cuqu