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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
卷 122, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.053001
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- Grenoble Laboratoire d'Alliances Nanoscience-Energies du futur (LANEF) [ANR-10-LABX-51-01]
- National Research Foundation Singapore
- Ministry of Education Singapore Academic Research Fund Tier 2 [MOE2015-T2-1-101]
- ANR SuperRing [ANR-15-CE30-0012]
- integrated program in physics of National Science Foundation
- Binational (US-Israel) Science Foundation [PHY-1402249, PHY-1607221, 2015616]
We study an ultracold atomic gas with attractive interactions in a one-dimensional optical lattice. We find that its excitation spectrum displays a quantum soliton band, corresponding to N-particle bound states, and a continuum band of other, mostly extended, states. For a system of a finite size, the two branches are degenerate in energy for weak interactions, while a gap opens above a threshold value of the interaction strength. We find that the interplay between degenerate extended and bound states has important consequences for both static and dynamical properties of the system. In particular, the solitonic states turn out to be protected from spatial perturbations and random disorder. We discuss how such dynamics implies that our system effectively provides an example of a quantum many-body system that, with the variation of the bosonic lattice filling, crosses over from integrable nonergodic to nonintegrable ergodic dynamics, through nonintegrable-nonergodic regimes.
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