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Many-body interband tunneling as a witness for complex dynamics in the Bose-Hubbard model

Other Condensed Matter 2007-10-10 v1

Abstract

A perturbative model is studied for the tunneling of many-particle states from the ground band to the first excited energy band, mimicking Landau-Zener decay for ultracold, spinless atoms in quasi-one dimensional optical lattices subjected to a tunable tilting force. The distributions of the computed tunneling rates provide an independent and experimentally accessible signature of the regular-chaotic transition in the strongly correlated many-body dynamics of the ground band.

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@article{arxiv.0704.0233,
  title  = {Many-body interband tunneling as a witness for complex dynamics in the Bose-Hubbard model},
  author = {Andrea Tomadin and Riccardo Mannella and Sandro Wimberger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.0233},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures