It is shown that, in the parameter regime of state of the art experiments on Bose-Einstein condensates loaded into optical lattices, the energy spectrum of the 1D Bose-Hubbard model amended by a static field exhibits unambiguous signatures of quantum chaos. In the dynamics, this leads to the irreversible decay of Bloch oscillations.

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arXiv:1309.4045 · Physical Review Letters

Interaction-Induced Quantum Phase Revivals and Evidence for the Transition to the Quantum Chaotic Regime in 1D Atomic Bloch Oscillations

Florian Meinert, Manfred J. Mark, Emil Kirilov, Katharina Lauber, Philipp Weinmann, Michael Gröbner, Hanns‐Christoph Nägerl

Published May 15, 2014• 72 citations

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DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.112.193003

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