| Literature DB >> 21770486 |
E Lucioni1, B Deissler, L Tanzi, G Roati, M Zaccanti, M Modugno, M Larcher, F Dalfovo, M Inguscio, G Modugno.
Abstract
We study the transport dynamics of matter-waves in the presence of disorder and nonlinearity. An atomic Bose-Einstein condensate that is localized in a quasiperiodic lattice in the absence of atom-atom interaction shows instead a slow expansion with a subdiffusive behavior when a controlled repulsive interaction is added. The measured features of the subdiffusion are compared to numerical simulations and a heuristic model. The observations confirm the nature of subdiffusion as interaction-assisted hopping between localized states and highlight a role of the spatial correlation of the disorder.Entities:
Year: 2011 PMID: 21770486 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.230403
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Phys Rev Lett ISSN: 0031-9007 Impact factor: 9.161