Chaos-induced depletion of a Bose-Einstein condensate
arXiv:2007.07662 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.103.023336
Abstract
The mean-field limit of a bosonic quantum many-body system is described by (mostly) non-linear equations of motion which may exhibit chaos very much in the spirit of classical particle chaos, i.e. by an exponential separation of trajectories in Hilbert space with a rate given by a positive Lyapunov exponent . The question now is whether imprints itself onto measurable observables of the underlying quantum many-body system even at finite particle numbers. Using a Bose-Einstein condensate expanding in a shallow potential landscape as a paradigmatic example for a bosonic quantum many-body system, we show, that the number of non-condensed particles is subject to an exponentially fast increase, i.e. depletion. Furthermore, we show that the rate of exponential depletion is given by the Lyapunov exponent associated with the chaotic mean-field dynamics. Finally, we demonstrate that this chaos-induced depletion is accessible experimentally through the visibility of interference fringes in the total density after time of flight, thus opening the possibility to measure , and with it, the interplay between chaos and non-equilibrium quantum matter, in a real experiment.
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