title: Interacting ultracold atomic kicked rotors: loss of dynamical localization.
abstract: We study the fate of dynamical localization of two quantum kicked rotors with contact interaction, which relates to experimental realizations of the rotors with ultra-cold atomic gases. A single kicked rotor is known to exhibit dynamical localization, which takes place in momentum space. The contact interaction affects the evolution of the relative momentum k of a pair of interacting rotors in a non-analytic way. Consequently the evolution operator U is exciting large relative momenta with amplitudes which decay only as a power law 1/k4. This is in contrast to the center-of-mass momentum K for which the amplitudes excited by U decay superexponentially fast with K. Therefore dynamical localization is preserved for the center-of-mass momentum, but destroyed for the relative momentum for any nonzero strength of interaction.
authors.affiliation: Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems, Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, South Korea.
authors.forename: Pinquan
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Qin
authors.affiliation: Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems, Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, South Korea.
authors.forename: Alexei
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Andreanov
authors.affiliation: Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems, Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, South Korea.
authors.forename: Hee Chul
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems, Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, South Korea.|New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study, Center for Theoretical Chemistry &Physics, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Sergej
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Flach