Interacting ultracold atomic kicked rotors: dynamical localization ?
Abstract
We study the fate of dynamical localization of two quantum kicked rotors with contact interaction. This interaction mimics experimental realizations with ultracold atomic gases. Dynamical localization for a single rotor takes place in momentum space. The contact interaction affects the evolution of the relative momentum of a pair of interacting rotors in a non-analytic way. Consequently the evolution operator is exciting large relative momenta with amplitudes which decay only as a power law . This is in contrast to the center-of-mass momentum for which the amplitudes excited by decay superexponentially fast. Therefore dynamical localization is preserved for the center-of-mass momentum, but destroyed for the relative momentum for any nonzero strength of interaction.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1606.08964,
title = {Interacting ultracold atomic kicked rotors: dynamical localization ?},
author = {Pinquan Qin and Alexei Andreanov and Hee Chul Park and Sergej Flach},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.08964},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
5 pages, 4 figures