title: Dynamic chaos and stability of a weakly open Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well trap.
abstract: We investigate the dynamics of a weakly open Bose-Einstein condensate with attractive interaction in a magneto-optical double-well trap. A set of time-dependent ordinary differential equations describing the complex dynamics are derived by using a two-mode approximation. The stability of the stationary solution is analyzed and some stability regions on the parameter space are displayed. In the symmetric well case, the numerical calculations reveal that by adjusting the feeding from the nonequilibrium thermal cloud or the two-body dissipation rate, the system could transit among the periodic motions, chaotic self-trapping states of the Lorenz model, and the steady states with the zero relative atomic population or with the macroscopic quantum self-trapping (MQST). In the asymmetric well case, we find the periodic orbit being a stable two-sided limited cycle with MQST. The results are in good agreement with that of the direct numerical simulations to the Gross-Pitaevskii equation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China.
authors.forename: Xiaobing
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Wenhua
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hai
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001683:Biological Clocks / Q000502:physiology*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D008954:Models, Biological; D015233:Models, Statistical; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics