Optical materials - Chaos theory - Crystal lattices - Phase space methods;
D O I:
10.1103/PhysRevA.99.023625
中图分类号:
O43 [光学];
学科分类号:
070207 ;
0803 ;
摘要:
We introduce a theory for the stability of a condensate in an optical lattice. We show that the understanding of the stability-to-ergodicity transition involves the fusion of monodromy and chaos theory. Specifically, the condensate can decay if a connected chaotic pathway to depletion is formed, which requires swap of separatrices in phase space.