Experimental evidence of dynamical localization and delocalization in a quasiperiodic driven system
This paper presents the first experimental evidence of the transition from dynamical localization to delocalization under the influence of a quasiperiodic driving on a quantum system. A quantum kicked rotator is realized by placing cold atoms in a pulsed, far-detuned, standing wave. If the standing wave is periodically pulsed, one observes the suppression of the classical chaotic diffusion, i.e., dynamical localization. If the standing wave is pulsed quasiperiodically, dynamical localization is observed or not, depending on the driving frequencies being commensurable or incommensurable. One can thus study the transition from the localized to the delocalized case as a function of the effective dimensionality of the system.
Ringot
J
Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molecules and Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Laser et Applications, Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, F-59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France.
Szriftgiser
P
Garreau
JC
Delande
D