title: Chaos-assisted tunneling with cold atoms.
abstract: In the context of quantum chaos, both theory and numerical analysis predict large fluctuations of the tunneling transition probabilities when irregular dynamics is present at the classical level. Here we consider the nondissipative quantum evolution of cold atoms trapped in a time-dependent modulated periodic potential generated by two laser beams. We give some precise guidelines for the observation of chaos-assisted tunneling between invariant phase space structures paired by time-reversal symmetry.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Mathématiques et de Physique Théorique (CNRS UPRES-A 6083), Avenue Monge, Parc de Grandmont, 37200 Tours, France. mouchet@celfi.phys.univ-tours.fr
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mouchet
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Miniatura
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kaiser
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Grémaud
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Delande