Caustics in the sine-Gordon model from quenches in coupled 1D Bose gases
arXiv:2301.08410 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.108.013312
Abstract
Caustics are singularities that occur naturally in optical, hydrodynamic and quantum waves, giving rise to high amplitude patterns that can be described using catastrophe theory. In this paper we study caustics in a statistical field theory setting in the form of the sine-Gordon model that describes a variety of physical systems including coupled 1D superfluids. Specifically, we use classical field simulations to study the dynamics of two ultracold 1D Bose gases (quasi-condensates) that are suddenly coupled to each other and find that the resulting non-equilibrium dynamics are dominated by caustics. Thermal noise is included by sampling the initial states from a Boltzmann distribution for phononic excitations. We find that caustics pile up over time in both the number and phase difference observables leading to a characteristic non-thermal `circus tent' shaped probability distribution at long times.
arXiv comment30 pages, 15 figures. In this second version we have added a figure (Fig. 15) giving the probability distribution at long times after a quench for the phase difference variable
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