Nonlinear and chaotic dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical cavity

Diver, Martin and Robb, Gordon and Oppo, Gian-Luca (2014) Nonlinear and chaotic dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical cavity. Physical Review A, 89 (3). 033602. ISSN 1094-1622 (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.89.033602)

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Abstract

We present a theoretical analysis of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) enclosed in an optical cavity driven by an external laser beam. In the limit where the cavity-field dynamics is adiabatically eliminated, the interaction between the condensate and the cavity displays a range of nonlinear dynamical behaviors such as multistability, quasiperiodicity, and conservative chaotic oscillations. We show that chaotic oscillations are ubiquitous when repulsive atom-atom interactions are included in the model. Despite the complexity of the full coupled BEC-cavity system, the essential features of its nonlinear and chaotic behavior are low-dimensional and are well described by considering the evolution of only a few motional states of the BEC.

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Diver, Martin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7948-7648, Robb, Gordon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3004-5926 and Oppo, Gian-Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-4309;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:47811
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    3 March 2014
    Published
    29 January 2014
    Accepted
    Subjects:Science > Physics
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:06 May 2014 11:03
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 10:40
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/47811
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