Ehrenfest breakdown of the mean-field dynamics of Bose gases

Abstract

The mean-field dynamics of a Bose gas is shown to break down at time ${\tau }_h=(c_1/\gamma )\ln N$ where $\gamma$ is the Lyapunov exponent of the mean-field theory, $N$ is the number of bosons, and $c_1$ is a system-dependent constant. The breakdown time ${\tau }_h$ is essentially the Ehrenfest time that characterizes the breakdown of the correspondence between classical and quantum dynamics. This breakdown can be well described by the quantum fidelity defined for reduced density matrices. Our results are obtained with the formalism in particle-number phase space and are illustrated with a triple-well model. The logarithmic quantum-classical correspondence time may be verified experimentally with Bose-Einstein condensates.

6 pages, 4 figures

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