Abstract We explore the quench dynamics of a two-dimensional, weakly interacting disordered Bose gas for various relative strengths of interactions and disorder. This allows us to identify two well distinct out-of-equilibrium regimes. When interactions are smaller than the disorder, the gas experiences multiple scattering and exhibits a short-range spatial coherence. At short time this coherence is only smoothly affected by interactions, via a diffusion process of the particles' energies. When interactions are larger than the disorder, scattering ceases and the gas behaves more and more like a fluid, ultimately like a superfluid at low energy. In the superfluid regime, the gas exhibits a long-range algebraic coherence, characteristic of a pre-thermal regime in disorder.
We have analytically explored the phenomenon of quantum scattering for unfixed quantum scatterers. We have considered short ranged (Fermi-Huang
δp3 [1]) interaction between the incident `particle' and the scatterer with no interactions among the scatterers, and the scatterers as (i) particle(s) in a 1-D box, (ii) particle(s) in a 1-D double box, (iii) particle(s) in a 1-D grating, (iv) particle(s) in a 2-D rectangular box, (v) particle(s) in a 3-D harmonic trap, (vi) Bose-Einstein condensates in a double well, (vii) Bose-Einstein condensates in an optical lattice, etc. Coherent scattering from all possible positions of the quantum scatterers in the finite geometry gives rise to rich physics. We have predicted differential scattering cross-section for `particle' scattering, not only for the above cases, but also for 3-D harmonically trapped Bose and Fermi gases in thermodynamic equilibrium. Our predictions can be tested within the present day experimental setups.
We theoretically investigate the nonequilibrium relaxation of a spatial density modulation in a one-dimensional, weakly interacting Bose gas, and its connection to the equilibrium scattering rate
γk∝k3/2 of the system's phononic excitations. We show that the relaxation is generally governed by a nonequilibrium scattering rate
γk,t coupled to quantum fluctuations, which approaches its equilibrium value
γk only at long times. Numerical simulations of quantum kinetic equations reveal an algebraic convergence,
γk,t−γk∼t−2/3, confirmed by analytical predictions. More broadly, our results establish a theoretical framework for experimentally probing phonon dynamics through the temporal evolution of local perturbations in quantum gases.