{
  "id": "0907.3411",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2009-07-20T14:26:55.000Z",
  "updated": "2009-07-20T14:26:55.000Z",
  "title": "Observation of the Anderson Metal-Insulator Transition with Atomic Matter Waves: Theory and Experiment",
  "authors": [
    "Gabriel Lemarié",
    "Julien Chabé",
    "Pascal Szriftgiser",
    "Jean-Claude Garreau",
    "Benoît Grémaud",
    "Dominique Delande"
  ],
  "comment": "19 pages, 15 figures, submitted to PRA",
  "journal": "Phys.Rev.A 80, 4 (2009) 043626",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevA.80.043626",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph",
    "cond-mat.dis-nn",
    "nlin.CD",
    "physics.optics"
  ],
  "abstract": "Using a cold atomic gas exposed to laser pulses -- a realization of the chaotic quasiperiodic kicked rotor with three incommensurate frequencies -- we study experimentally and theoretically the Anderson metal-insulator transition in three dimensions. Sensitive measurements of the atomic wavefunction and the use of finite-size scaling techniques make it possible to unambiguously demonstrate the existence of a quantum phase transition and to measure its critical exponents. By taking proper account of systematic corrections to one-parameter scaling, we show the universality of the critical exponent $\\nu=1.59\\pm0.01,$ which is found to be equal to the one previously computed for the Anderson model.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2009-07-20T14:26:55.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "03.75.-b",
      "72.15.Rn",
      "64.70.Tg",
      "05.45.Mt"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "anderson metal-insulator transition",
      "atomic matter waves",
      "experiment",
      "observation",
      "chaotic quasiperiodic kicked rotor"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review A",
      "year": 2009,
      "month": "Oct",
      "volume": 80,
      "number": 4,
      "pages": "043626"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 19,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2009PhRvA..80d3626L"
    }
  }
}