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arxiv: 1606.08964 · v1 · pith:5HOGRR7Bnew · submitted 2016-06-29 · ❄️ cond-mat.quant-gas · cond-mat.dis-nn

Interacting ultracold atomic kicked rotors: dynamical localization ?

classification ❄️ cond-mat.quant-gas cond-mat.dis-nn
keywords momentumdynamicalinteractionlocalizationrelativerotorsamplitudesatomic
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We study the fate of dynamical localization of two quantum kicked rotors with contact interaction. This interaction mimics experimental realizations with ultracold atomic gases. Dynamical localization for a single rotor takes place in momentum space. The contact interaction affects the evolution of the relative momentum $k$ of a pair of interacting rotors in a non-analytic way. Consequently the evolution operator $U$ is exciting large relative momenta with amplitudes which decay only as a power law $1/k^4$. This is in contrast to the center-of-mass momentum $K$ for which the amplitudes excited by $U$ decay superexponentially fast. Therefore dynamical localization is preserved for the center-of-mass momentum, but destroyed for the relative momentum for any nonzero strength of interaction.

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