Finite-size effects in Anderson localization of one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates

Abstract

We investigate the disorder-induced localization transition in Bose-Einstein condensates for the Anderson and Aubry-Andr´e models in the noninteracting limit using exact diagonalization. We show that, in addition to the standard superfluid fraction, other tools such as the entanglement and fidelity can provide clear signatures of the transition. Interestingly, the fidelity exhibits good sensitivity even for small lattices. Effects of the system size on these quantities are analyzed in detail, including the determination of a finite-size-scaling law for the critical disorder strength in the case of the Anderson model.