Transition to Instability in a Periodically Kicked Bose-Einstein Condensate on a Ring

Details Transition to Instability in a Periodically Kicked Bose-Einstein Condensate on a Ring Transition to Instability in a Periodically Kicked Bose-Einstein Condensate on a Ring

2005-08-28

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0508665v1

Phys. Rev. A. 73, 013601 (2006),

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

10 pages, 12 figures. High quality figures and related note on numerical integration of Bogoiubov equation can be found at h

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.73.013601

A periodically kicked ring of a Bose-Einstein condensate is considered as a nonlinear generalization of the quantum kicked rotor, where the nonlinearity stems from the mean field interactions between the condensed atoms. For weak interactions, periodic motion (anti-resonance) becomes quasiperiodic (quantum beating) but remains stable. There exists a critical strength of interactions beyond which quasiperiodic motion becomes chaotic, resulting in an instability of the condensate manifested by exponential growth in the number of noncondensed atoms. In the stable regime, the system remains predominantly in the two lowest energy states and may be mapped onto a spin model, from which we obtain an analytic expression for the beat frequency and discuss the route to instability. We numerically explore parameter regime for the occurrence of instability and reveal the characteristic density profile for both condensed and noncondensed atoms. The Arnold diffusion to higher energy levels is found to be responsible for the transition to instability. Similar behavior is observed for dynamically localized states (essentially quasiperiodic motions), where stability remains for weak interactions but is destroyed by strong interactions.

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