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We study the Bloch dynamics of a quasi one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate of cold atoms in a tilted optical lattice modeled by a Hamiltonian of Bose-Hubbard type: The corresponding mean-field system described by a discrete nonlinear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Andrey R. Kolovsky , Hans Jürgen Korsch , Eva-Maria Graefe

In driven nonlinear systems, phase locking is an intriguing effect leading to robust stationary states that are stable over extended ranges of control parameters. Recent experiments allow for exploring microscopic mechanisms underlying such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-14 Seemant Mishra , Artem Ryabov , Philipp Maass

We investigate the effect of a current nonlinearity on the evolution of a trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensate. We have implemented techniques from the field of nonlinear optics to provide new insights into the irregular dynamics…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-02-14 Mohammed F. Saleh , Patrik Öhberg

We experimentally demonstrate the formation and stable propagation of various types of discrete temporal solitons in an optical fiber system. Pulses interacting with a time-periodic potential and defocusing nonlinearity are shown to form…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-08-31 Christoph Bersch , Georgy Onishchukov , Ulf Peschel

This study makes the first attempt to use the 2/3-order fractional Laplacian modeling of enhanced diffusing movements of random turbulent particle resulting from nonlinear inertial interactions. A combined effect of the inertial…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wen Chen

Bloch oscillations (BOs) describe the coherent oscillatory motion of electrons in a periodic lattice under a constant external electric field. Deviations from pure harmonic wave packet motion or irregular Bloch oscillations can occur due to…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-07 Chenhaoyue Wang , Carlos J. Garcia-Cervera , Amartya S. Banerjee

According to Faraday's law in classical physics, a varying magnetic field stimulates an electric eddy field. Intuitively, when a classical field is constant and imposed on a lattice, the Wannier-Stark ladders (WSL) can be established,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-15 H. P. Zhang , Z. Song

We study the quantum dynamics of soliton-like domain walls in anisotropic spin-1/2 chains in the presence of magnetic fields. In the absence of fields, domain walls form a Bloch band of delocalized quantum states while a static field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jordan Kyriakidis , Daniel Loss

We theoretically investigate Bloch oscillations in a one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard chain, with single-particle losses from the odd lattice sites described by the Lindblad equation. For a single particle the time evolution of the state is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-08 Bradley Longstaff , Eva-Maria Graefe

Artificial crystals such as moir\'e superlattices can have a real-space periodicity much larger than the underlying atomic scale. This facilitates the presence of Bloch oscillations in the presence of a static electric field. We demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-23 Christophe De Beule , E. J. Mele

Bloch Oscillations (BOs) of quantum particles manifest themselves as periodic spreading and re-localization of the associated wave functions when traversing lattice potentials subject to external gradient forces. Albeit BOs are deeply…

We study the behaviour of the expectation value of the acceleration of a particle in a one-dimensional periodic potential when an external homogeneous force is suddenly applied. The theory is formulated in terms of modified Bloch states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Federico Duque-Gomez , J. E. Sipe

We analyse Bloch oscillations (i.e., oscillations induced by a static force) of strongly interacting Bose atoms {\em beyond} the hard-core bosons model. It is shown that residual interactions between the atoms modulate Bloch oscillations,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrey R. Kolovsky

We study the magnetic Bloch oscillations performed by a quantum particle moving in a two-dimensional lattice in the presence of a strong (synthetic) magnetic field and a uniform force. An elementary derivation of the Berry curvature effect…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-07-25 Marco Cominotti , Iacopo Carusotto

The interplay of $\pi$-flux and lattice geometry can yield full localization of quantum dynamics in lattice systems, a striking interference phenomenon known as Aharonov-Bohm caging. At the level of the single-particle energy spectrum, this…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-30 Marco Di Liberto , Sebabrata Mukherjee , Nathan Goldman

We study a nonadiabatic effect on the conductances in the quantum Hall effect of two-dimensional electrons with a periodic potential. We found that the Hall and longitudinal conductances oscillate in time with a very large frequencies due…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Manabu Machida , Naomichi Hatano , Jun Goryo

We derive the nonlinear fractional surface wave equation that governs compression waves at an interface that is coupled to a viscous bulk medium. The fractional character of the differential equation comes from the fact that the effective…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-29 Julian Kappler , Shamit Shrivastava , Matthias F. Schneider , Roland R. Netz

Fractionalization without time-reversal symmetry breaking is a long-sought-after goal in the study of correlated phenomena. The earlier proposal of correlated insulating states at $n \pm 1/3$ filling in twisted bilayer graphene and recent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-27 Dan Mao , Kevin Zhang , Eun-Ah Kim

We study quantum effects in the dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate loaded onto the edge of a Brillouin zone of a one-dimensional periodic potential created by an optical lattice. We show that quantum fluctuations trigger the dynamical…

Defects in tight-binding lattices generally destroy the onset of Bloch oscillations (BOs) and the periodic self-imaging of the wave packet due to the lack of an equally-spaced Wannier-Stark ladder spectrum. Here it is shown that localized…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 Stefano Longhi