Hamiltonian chaos in a coupled BEC-optomechanical-cavity system

  • K. Zhang*
  • , W. Chen
  • , M. Bhattacharya
  • , P. Meystre
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We present a theoretical study of a hybrid optomechanical system consisting of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) trapped inside a single-mode optical cavity with a moving end mirror. The intracavity light field has a dual role: it excites a momentum side mode of the condensate, and acts as a nonlinear spring that couples the vibrating mirror to that collective density excitation. We present the dynamics in a regime where the intracavity optical field, the mirror, and the side-mode excitation all display bistable behavior. In this regime we find that the dynamics of the system exhibits Hamiltonian chaos for appropriate initial conditions.

Original languageEnglish
Article number013802
JournalPhysical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Volume81
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 5 Jan 2010

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