Coherent ratchets in driven Bose-Einstein condensates

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2009-08-05

arxiv.org/abs/0908.0692v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 200601 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Quantum Gases

5 pages, 4 eps figures. Minor changes, this version to be published in PRL

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.200601

We study the response of a Bose-Einstein condensate to an unbiased periodic driving potential. By controlling the space and time symmetries of the driving we show how a directed current can be induced, producing a coherent quantum ratchet. Weak driving induces a regular behavior that is strongly governed by the interparticle interaction. Breaking both space and time symmetries is required to produce current flow. For strong driving the behavior becomes chaotic. The resulting effective irreversibility renders the space asymmetry sufficient to produce the ratchet effect, although the system is completely coherent.

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