Signatures of quantum chaos of Rydberg dressed bosons in a triple-well potential

Abstract: We study signatures of quantum chaos in dynamics of Rydberg dressed bosonic atoms held in a one dimensional triple-well potential. Long-range nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor interactions, induced by laser dressing atoms to strongly interacting Rydberg states, affect drastically mean field and quantum many-body dynamics. By analyzing the mean field dynamics, classical chaos regions with positive and large Lyapunov exponents are identified as a function of the potential well tilting and dressed interactions. In the quantum regime, it is found that level statistics of the eigen-energies gains a Wigner-Dyson distribution when the Lyapunov exponents are large, giving rise to signatures of strong quantum chaos. We find that both the time averaged entanglement entropy and survival probability of the initial state have distinctively large values in the quantum chaos regime. We further show that population variances could be used as an indicator of the emergence of quantum chaos. This might provide a way to directly probe quantum chaotic dynamics through analyzing population dynamics in individual potential wells.