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Dynamical Signatures and Kibble-Zurek Scaling of Localization in Tilted Bose-Einstein Condensates

Argha Debnath·Radheshyam Saha·Ravindra W. Chhajlany·Mariusz Gajda·Debraj Rakshit
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We study nonequilibrium signatures of tilt-induced localization in a one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate loaded in a shallow optical lattice. The tilt strength acts as a control parameter for the localization-delocalization crossover. We also consider the effects of repulsive interactions, which tend to delocalize the condensate. We first characterize localized and delocalized regimes through sudden quenches of the interaction strength and the external tilt. The resulting dynamics is analyzed using the survival probability and its power spectral density. Localized condensates exhibit strong memory retention, pronounced revivals, regular dynamics and a narrow spectral response, whereas delocalized condensates show suppressed recurrences, irregular dynamics and a broader distribution of spectral weight over many frequencies. We then investigate finite-rate ramps of the tilt strength across the localization threshold. Using the localization length and the Bogoliubov excitation gap, we extract the relevant critical exponents and perform Kibble-Zurek scaling analysis in the driven dynamics. Our results establish quench response and finite-rate scaling as complementary dynamical probes of localization in interacting Bose gases, with direct relevance to cold-atom experiments in tilted optical lattices.

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Argha Debnath, Radheshyam Saha, Ravindra W. Chhajlany, Mariusz Gajda, Debraj Rakshit. 2026-08-21. Dynamical Signatures and Kibble-Zurek Scaling of Localization in Tilted Bose-Einstein Condensates. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21492

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