Observation of many-body dynamical localization (2312.13880v1)
Abstract: The quantum kicked rotor is a paradigmatic model system in quantum physics. As a driven quantum system, it is used to study the transition from the classical to the quantum world and to elucidate the emergence of chaos and diffusion. In contrast to its classical counterpart, it features dynamical localization, specifically Anderson localization in momentum space. The interacting many-body kicked rotor is believed to break localization, as recent experiments suggest. Here, we present evidence for many-body dynamical localization for the Lieb-Liniger version of the many-body quantum kicked rotor. After some initial evolution, the momentum distribution of interacting quantum-degenerate bosonic atoms in one-dimensional geometry, kicked hundreds of times by means of a pulsed sinusoidal potential, stops spreading. We quantify the arrested evolution by analysing the energy and the information entropy of the system as the interaction strength is tuned. In the limiting cases of vanishing and strong interactions, the first-order correlation function exhibits a very different decay behavior. Our results shed light on the boundary between the classical, chaotic world and the realm of quantum physics.
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