arXiv:1401.1446 · Acta Physica Polonica A

Manifold Approach for a Many-Body Wannier-Stark System: Localization and Chaos in Energy Space

Carlos A. Parra-Murillo, Sandro Wimberger

Published Dec 1, 2013• 6 citations

Abstract

We study the resonant tunneling eect in a many-body WannierStark system, realized by ultracold bosonic atoms in an optical lattice subjected to an external Stark force.The properties of the many-body system are eectively described in terms of upper-band excitation manifolds, which allow for the study of the transition between regular and quantum chaotic spectral statistics.We show that our system makes it possible to control the spectral statistics locally in energy space by the competition of the force and the interparticle interaction.By a time-dependent sweep of the Stark force the dynamics is reduced to a LandauZener problem in the single-particle setting.

DOI: 10.12693/aphyspola.124.1091

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