Nonlinear Sciences – Chaotic Dynamics
Scientific paper
2006-02-13
Nonlinear Sciences
Chaotic Dynamics
7 pages, 4 figures, enlarged version
Scientific paper
10.1209/0295-5075/77/30001
It is demonstrated that the oscillations in the width of the momentum distribution of atoms moving in a phase-modulated standing light field, as a function of the modulation amplitude, are correlated with the variation of the chaotic layer width in energy of an underlying effective pendulum. The maximum effect of dynamical localization and the nearly perfect delocalization are associated with the maxima and minima, respectively, of the chaotic layer width. It is also demonstrated that kinetic energy is conserved as an almost adiabatic invariant at the minima of the chaotic layer width, and that the system is accurately described by delta-kicked rotors at the zeros of the Bessel functions J_0 and J_1. Numerical calculations of kinetic energy and Lyapunov exponents confirm all the theoretical predictions.
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