Many-body Dynamical Localization in a Kicked Interacting Quantum Gas*

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Abstract

The kicked rotor is a prototypical testbed for exploring quantum chaos and dynamical localization in single-particle quantum mechanics. We report experiments introducing tunable interactions into an optical-lattice-based quantum kicked rotor. Results probe the existence of a dynamical many-body localized regime, and allow detailed characterization of interaction-driven delocalization in quantum kicked rotors. *The authors acknowledge support from ARO (PECASE W911NF1410154) and NSF (CAREER 1555313)

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Authors

  • Roshan Sajjad

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Ethan Simmons

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Alec Cao

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Cora Fujiwara

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  • David Weld

    University of California, Santa Barbara