dorsal/arxiv
View SchemaNonlinear Matter Wave Dynamics with a Chaotic Potential
| Authors | S. A. Gardiner, D. Jaksch, R. Dum, J. I. Cirac, P. Zoller |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9912092 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9912092 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.62.023612 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. A 62, 023612 (2000). |
Abstract
We consider the case of a cubic nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with an additional chaotic potential, in the sense that such a potential produces chaotic dynamics in classical mechanics. We derive and describe an appropriate semiclassical limit to such a nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation, using a semiclassical interpretation of the Wigner function, and relate this to the hydrodynamic limit of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation used in the context of Bose-Einstein condensation. We investigate a specific example of a Gross-Pitaevskii equation with such a chaotic potential: the one-dimensional delta-kicked harmonic oscillator, and its semiclassical limit. We explore the feasibility of experimental realization of such a system in a Bose-Einstein condensate experiment, giving a concrete proposal of how to implement such a configuration, and considering the problem of condensate depletion.
{
"annotation_id": "c3455c30-3723-4b72-97d4-293dacf30ac4",
"date_created": "2026-03-02T18:02:48.479000Z",
"date_modified": "2026-03-02T18:02:48.479000Z",
"file_hash": "dea00c65cb8155491bf1c852b4806f5afd701ba8d7f7ec5d2aeb4ee1446fb2af",
"private": false,
"record": {
"abstract": "We consider the case of a cubic nonlinear Schr\\\"{o}dinger equation with an\nadditional chaotic potential, in the sense that such a potential produces\nchaotic dynamics in classical mechanics. We derive and describe an appropriate\nsemiclassical limit to such a nonlinear Schr\\\"{o}dinger equation, using a\nsemiclassical interpretation of the Wigner function, and relate this to the\nhydrodynamic limit of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation used in the context of\nBose-Einstein condensation. We investigate a specific example of a\nGross-Pitaevskii equation with such a chaotic potential: the one-dimensional\ndelta-kicked harmonic oscillator, and its semiclassical limit. We explore the\nfeasibility of experimental realization of such a system in a Bose-Einstein\ncondensate experiment, giving a concrete proposal of how to implement such a\nconfiguration, and considering the problem of condensate depletion.",
"arxiv_id": "quant-ph/9912092",
"authors": [
"S. A. Gardiner",
"D. Jaksch",
"R. Dum",
"J. I. Cirac",
"P. Zoller"
],
"categories": [
"quant-ph",
"cond-mat"
],
"doi": "10.1103/PhysRevA.62.023612",
"journal_ref": "Phys. Rev. A 62, 023612 (2000).",
"title": "Nonlinear Matter Wave Dynamics with a Chaotic Potential",
"url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9912092"
},
"schema_id": "dorsal/arxiv",
"source": {
"execution_id": "22bd2f72-223c-47ec-9aff-e14c925da878",
"id": "arXiv Dataset IDs",
"type": "Model",
"variant": "snapshot-2026-03-01",
"version": "0.1.0"
},
"user_id": 1000002
}