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Classical chaos with Bose-Einstein condensates in tilted optical lattices

Quentin Thommen, Jean Claude Garreau, Véronique Zehnlé

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0306172

Abstract

A widely accepted definition of ``quantum chaos'' is ``the behavior of a quantum system whose classical limit is chaotic''. The dynamics of quantum-chaotic systems is nevertheless very different from that of their classical counterparts. A fundamental reason for that is the linearity of Schrödinger equation. In this paper, we study the quantum dynamics of an ultra-cold quantum degenerate gas in a tilted optical lattice and show that it displays features very close to classical chaos. We show that its phase space is organized according to the Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem.

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