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arXiv:2301.04818 · SciPost Physics

Quantum chaos in interacting Bose-Bose mixtures

Tran Duong Anh-Tai, Mathias Mikkelsen, Thomas Busch, Thomás Fogarty

Published Aug 4, 2023• 9 citations
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Abstract

The appearance of chaotic quantum dynamics significantly depends on the symmetry properties of a system, and in cold atomic systems many of these can be experimentally controlled. In this work, we systematically study the emergence of quantum chaos in a minimal system describing one-dimensional harmonically trapped Bose-Bose mixtures by tuning the particle-particle interactions. Using an improved exact diagonalization scheme, we examine the transition from integrability to chaos when the inter-component interaction changes from weak to strong. Our study is based on the analysis of the level spacing distribution and the distribution of the matrix elements of observables in terms of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis and their dynamics. We show that one can obtain strong signatures of chaos by increasing the inter-component interaction strength and breaking the symmetry of intra-component interactions.

DOI
10.21468/scipostphys.15.2.048

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