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Chaos, Metastability and Ergodicity in Bose-Hubbard Superfluid Circuits

Quantum Gases 2017-12-22 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

The hallmark of superfluidity is the appearance of metastable flow-states that carry a persistent circulating current. Considering Bose-Hubbard superfluid rings, we clarify the role of "quantum chaos" in this context. We show that the standard Landau and Bogoliubov superfluidity criteria fail for such low-dimensional circuits. We also discuss the feasibility for a coherent operation of a SQUID-like setup. Finally, we address the manifestation of the strong many-body dynamical localization effect.

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@article{arxiv.1712.07909,
  title  = {Chaos, Metastability and Ergodicity in Bose-Hubbard Superfluid Circuits},
  author = {Geva Arwas and Doron Cohen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.07909},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

8 pages, 5 figs, review several results that concern Bose-Hubbard superfluid circuits