Localization in Two-Dimensional Quasicrystalline Lattices

Abstract

We investigate the emergence of localization in a weakly interacting Bose gas confined in quasicrystalline lattices with three different rotational symmetries: five, eight, and twelve. The analysis, performed at a mean field level and from which localization is detected, relies on the study of two observables: the inverse participation ratio (IPR) and the Shannon entropy in the coordinate space. Those physical quantities were determined from a robust statistical study for the stationary density profiles of the interacting condensate. Localization was identified for each lattice type as a function of the potential depth. Our analysis revealed a range of the potential depths for which the condensate density becomes localized, from partially at random lattice sites to fully in a single site. We found that localization in the case of five-fold rotational symmetry appears for (6ER,9ER), while it occurs in the interval (12ER,15ER) for octagonal and dodecagonal symmetries.