  The low-temperature states of bosonic fluids exhibit fundamental quantum
effects at the macroscopic scale: the best-known examples are Bose-Einstein
condensation (BEC) and superfluidity, which have been tested experimentally in
a variety of different systems. When bosons are interacting, disorder can
destroy condensation leading to a so-called Bose glass. This phase has been
very elusive to experiments due to the absence of any broken symmetry and of a
finite energy gap in the spectrum. Here we report the observation of a Bose
glass of field-induced magnetic quasiparticles in a doped quantum magnet
(Br-doped dichloro-tetrakis-thiourea-Nickel, DTN). The physics of DTN in a
magnetic field is equivalent to that of a lattice gas of bosons in the
grand-canonical ensemble; Br-doping introduces disorder in the hoppings and
interaction strengths, leading to localization of the bosons into a Bose glass
down to zero field, where it acquires the nature of an incompressible Mott
glass. The transition from the Bose glass (corresponding to a gapless spin
liquid) to the BEC (corresponding to a magnetically ordered phase) is marked by
a novel, universal exponent governing the scaling on the critical temperature
with the applied field, in excellent agreement with theoretical predictions.
Our study represents the first, quantitative account of the universal features
of disordered bosons in the grand-canonical ensemble.
