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Interacting ultracold atomic kicked rotors: dynamical localization ?

Quantum Gases 2016-06-30 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

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 kk of a pair of interacting rotors in a non-analytic way. Consequently the evolution operator UU is exciting large relative momenta with amplitudes which decay only as a power law 1/k41/k^4. This is in contrast to the center-of-mass momentum KK for which the amplitudes excited by UU 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

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