Title:
Quasiperiodic and Chaotic Dynamics in Bose-Einstein Condensates in Periodic Lattices and Superlattices

dc.contributor.author van Noort, Martijn
dc.contributor.author Porter, Mason
dc.contributor.author Yi, Yingfei
dc.contributor.author Chow, Shui-Nee
dc.contributor.corporatename Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Mathematics
dc.contributor.corporatename Imperial College, London. Dept. of Mathematics
dc.contributor.corporatename California Institute of Technology. Dept. of Applied Physics and Materials Science
dc.contributor.corporatename Georgia Institute of Technology. Center for Dynamical Systems and Nonlinear Studies
dc.contributor.corporatename California Institute of Technology. Center for the Physics of Information
dc.date.accessioned 2009-08-05T17:48:05Z
dc.date.available 2009-08-05T17:48:05Z
dc.date.issued 2005-07-23
dc.description MSC: 37J40, 70H99, 37N20 PACS: 05.45.-a, 03.75.Lm, 05.30.Jp, 05.45.Ac, 03.75.Nt en
dc.description.abstract We employ KAM theory to rigorously investigate the transition between quasiperiodic and chaotic dynamics in cigar-shaped Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) in periodic lattices and superlattices. Toward this end, we apply a coherent structure ansatz to the Gross-Pitaevskii equation to obtain a parametrically forced Duffing equation describing the spatial dynamics of the condensate. For shallow-well, intermediate-well, and deep-well potentials, we find KAM tori and Aubry-Mather sets to prove that one obtains mostly quasiperiodic dynamics for condensate wave functions of sufficiently large amplitude, where the minimal amplitude depends on the experimentally adjustable BEC parameters. We show that this threshold scales with the square root of the inverse of the scattering length, whereas the rotation number of tori above this threshold is proportional to the amplitude. As a consequence, one obtains the same dynamical picture for lattices of all depths, as an increase in its amplitude essentially only affects scaling in phase space. Our approach is applicable to periodic superlattices with an arbitrary number of rationally dependent wave numbers. en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/29414
dc.language.iso en_US en
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en
dc.relation.ispartofseries CDSNS2005-406 en
dc.subject Hamiltonian dynamics en
dc.subject Bose-Einstein condensates en
dc.subject KAM theory en
dc.subject Aubry-Mather theory en
dc.title Quasiperiodic and Chaotic Dynamics in Bose-Einstein Condensates in Periodic Lattices and Superlattices en
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dc.type.genre Pre-print
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local.contributor.author Chow, Shui-Nee
local.contributor.corporatename College of Sciences
local.contributor.corporatename School of Mathematics
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