Dissipation-Selected Resonant Fronts in a Driven-Dissipative Bose-Hubbard Lattice

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Main Authors: Ma, Wei-Guo, Fan, Heng
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author Ma, Wei-Guo
Fan, Heng
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Fan, Heng
contents Spatially structured dissipation organizes driven quantum matter beyond Hamiltonian control. We show that a dissipation gradient combined with a Stark-induced detuning ramp selects a nonlinear resonance slice in a two-dimensional driven-dissipative Bose-Hubbard lattice, producing a pinned density front in generalized Gross-Pitaevskii simulations. The underlying resonance condition fixes the front position, while its Airy-like profile obeys a width scaling set by tunneling stiffness and the effective detuning slope. Treating the front as an emergent interface explains how tuning the selected resonance toward the minimum-loss side yields Peierls-Nabarro depinning steps, discrete transverse pattern locking, spatiotemporal chaos, and minimum-loss localization. Center-of-mass and generalized-imbalance diagnostics map these outcomes into a dynamical phase diagram as detuning-ramp slope and dissipation-gradient strength vary. The results suggest structured dissipation as a mechanism for reconfigurable transport barriers and nonequilibrium interfaces in programmable bosonic lattices.
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spellingShingle Dissipation-Selected Resonant Fronts in a Driven-Dissipative Bose-Hubbard Lattice
Ma, Wei-Guo
Fan, Heng
Quantum Gases
Quantum Physics
Spatially structured dissipation organizes driven quantum matter beyond Hamiltonian control. We show that a dissipation gradient combined with a Stark-induced detuning ramp selects a nonlinear resonance slice in a two-dimensional driven-dissipative Bose-Hubbard lattice, producing a pinned density front in generalized Gross-Pitaevskii simulations. The underlying resonance condition fixes the front position, while its Airy-like profile obeys a width scaling set by tunneling stiffness and the effective detuning slope. Treating the front as an emergent interface explains how tuning the selected resonance toward the minimum-loss side yields Peierls-Nabarro depinning steps, discrete transverse pattern locking, spatiotemporal chaos, and minimum-loss localization. Center-of-mass and generalized-imbalance diagnostics map these outcomes into a dynamical phase diagram as detuning-ramp slope and dissipation-gradient strength vary. The results suggest structured dissipation as a mechanism for reconfigurable transport barriers and nonequilibrium interfaces in programmable bosonic lattices.
title Dissipation-Selected Resonant Fronts in a Driven-Dissipative Bose-Hubbard Lattice
topic Quantum Gases
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21900