Observation of Many-body Dynamical Delocalization in a Kicked Ultracold Gas
arXiv:2106.13773
Abstract
Contrary to a driven classical system that exhibits chaos phenomena and diffusive energy growth, a driven quantum system can exhibit dynamical localization that features energy saturation. However, the evolution of the dynamically localized state in the presence of many-body interactions has long remained an open question. Here we experimentally study an interacting 1D ultracold gas periodically kicked by a pulsed optical lattice, and observe the interaction-driven emergence of dynamical delocalization and many-body quantum chaos. The observed dynamics feature a sub-diffusive energy growth manifest over a broad parameter range of interaction and kick strengths, and shed light on an area where theoretical approaches are extremely challenging.
arXiv comment14 pages, 11 figures including supplementary materials
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