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Qiongtao, Xie

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Different routes from a matter wavepacket to spatiotemporal chaos

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.

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSIC↗

Coherent control of atomic tunneling in a driven triple well

Coherent control of quantum tunneling is investigated for a single atom held in a driven triple-well potential without tight-binding approximation. In the high-frequency regime within or without multiphoton resonance, we find the analytical solutions and their numerical correspondences, including the special Floquet states of invariant populations and the non-Floquet states of slowly varying populations. The Floquet quasienergy spectrum exhibits anticrossings and crossings for different values of the driving parameters, which are associated with different tunneling properties described by the non-Floquet states. Applying the presented results, we suggest a scheme for transporting a single atom between nonadjacent wells or between adjacent wells.

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSIC↗

Analytical results for a monochromatically driven two-level system

We show that the frequently encountered physical model of a monochromatically driven two-level system is exactly solvable. We present an analytical exact solution to this driven system in terms of two known special functions. Our analytical solution is valid for all parameter regimes and may find applications in current solid-state experiments.

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSIC↗

Photon-assisted tunneling of a driven two-mode Bose-Einstein condensate

We investigate the photon-assisted tunneling of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a periodically driven double-well potential. It is shown that the energy levels become nonequidistant due to the presence of the interatomic interaction, thereby leading to the occurrences of the fractional photon resonances. Depending on whether the resonance frequency shifts with the interatomic interaction, two distinct types of resonances are identified: nonshifting resonances and shifting resonances. In particular, certain nonshifting fractional resonances show an odd-even sensitivity to the atom number.

74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS↗