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arXiv:2308.14720 · Physical review. E

Chaos and anomalous transport in a semiclassical Bose-Hubbard chain

Dragan Marković, Mihailo Čubrović

Published Mar 28, 2024• 2 citations
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Abstract

We study chaotic dynamics and anomalous transport in a Bose-Hubbard chain in the semiclassical regime (the limit when the number of particles goes to infinity). We find that the system has mixed phase space with both regular and chaotic dynamics, even for long chains with up to 100 wells. The consequence of the mixed phase space is strongly anomalous diffusion in the space of occupation numbers, with a discrete set of transport exponents. After very long times the system crosses over to the hydrodynamic regime with normal diffusion. Anomalous transport is quite universal and almost completely independent of the parameters of the model (Coulomb interaction and chemical potential): It is mainly determined by the initial distribution of particles along the chain. We corroborate our findings by analytical arguments: scaling analysis for the anomalous regime and the Langevin equation for the normal diffusion regime.

DOI
10.1103/physreve.109.034213

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