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Generation and Coherent Control of Pulsed Quantum Frequency Combs
Published on: June 8, 2018
Different routes from a matter wavepacket to spatiotemporal chaos
Shiguang Rong1, Wenhua Hai, Qiongtao Xie
1Department of Physics and Key Laboratory of Low-dimensional Quantum Structures and Quantum Control of Ministry of Education, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China.
Abstract:
We investigate the dynamics of a quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a double-well potential with spatiotemporally modulated interaction. A variety of phenomena is identified in different frequency regimes, including the self-compression, splitting, breathing-like, and near-fidelity of the matter wavepacket, which are associated with different routes for the onset of spatiotemporal chaos. The results also reveal that chaos can retain space-inversion symmetry of the system.
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