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arXiv:1501.07042 · Physical Review A

Emergence of nonlinear behavior in the dynamics of ultracold bosons

Benoît Vermersch, Jean Claude Garreau

Published Apr 6, 2015• 7 citations
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Abstract

We study the evolution of a system of interacting ultracold bosons which presents nonlinear, chaotic behaviors in the limit of a very large number of particles. Using the spectral entropy as an indicator of chaos and three different numerical approaches---exact diagonalization, the truncated Husimi method, and the mean-field (Gross-Pitaevskii) approximation---we put into evidence the destructive impact of quantum noise on the emergence of nonlinear dynamics.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.91.043603

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