Arnold web and dynamical tunneling in a four-site Bose-Hubbard model

Abstract

We present the quantum and classical study of a four-well trapped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) modeled by the Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian. The model used is fashioned as a minimal bipartite system consisting of a trimer coupled weakly to a monomer. Semiclassical insights into the fragmentation dynamics of the condensate is obtained by mapping out the Arnold web of the high dimensional classical phase space. A remarkable one-to-one correspondence between the quantum state space in occupation number representation and the classical Arnold web in action space is observed. The relevance of dynamical tunneling for the dynamics of Fock states near resonance junctions on the Arnold web is highlighted. We also predict the possibility of manipulating the transport within the trimer subsystem due to the weak coupling to the monomer.

14 pages 8 figures; Modified as per referee suggestions; Accepted in Physica D special issue on Chaos indicators

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