Journal of Chaos

Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 723581, 8 pages

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/723581

Research Article

Synchronization and Stabilization of Chaotic Dynamics in a Quasi-1D Bose-Einstein Condensate

B. A. Idowu¹ and U. E. Vincent2,3

¹Department of Physics, Lagos State University, Ojo, Nigeria

²Department of Physical Sciences, Redeemers University, Km 46, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Redemption City, Mowe, Nigeria

³Department of Physics, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YB, UK

Received 10 August 2013; Revised 18 November 2013; Accepted 18 November 2013

Academic Editor: René Yamapi

Copyright © 2013 B. A. Idowu and U. E. Vincent. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract.

A nonlinear control is proposed for the exponential stabilization and synchronization of chaotic behaviour in a model of Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). The active control technique is designed based on Lyapunov stability theory and Routh-Hurwitz criteria. The control design approach in both cases guarantees the stability of the controlled states. Whereas the synchronization of two identical BEC in their chaotic states can be realized using the scheme; a suitable controller is also capable of driving the otherwise chaotic oscillation to a stable state which could be expected in practice. The effectiveness of this technique is theoretically and numerically demonstrated.

1. Introduction

Chaotic behaviour is a well-known phenomenon in physics, engineering, biology, and many other scientific disciplines. Recently, it has received much attention [1, 2], following several efforts to analyse and understand the complexity of nonlinear dynamical systems as well as the studies of feedback control systems design.

The control and synchronization of chaotic systems are challenging problems, since a chaotic system is extremely sensitive to small perturbations. Notwithstanding, the possibility of control and synchronization of chaotic systems under certain conditions has been established [1–8]. Due to the connection between control and synchronization, recent studies cast the problem of synchronization in the framework of control theory. In general, the control problem is aimed at stabilizing a chaotic attractor to either a periodic orbit or an equilibrium point, while for synchronization, two dynamical systems cooperate with each other such that the dynamics of the difference varnishes in the course of time. Many potential applications of these phenomena have come true and remarkable experiments have been done in secure communication, laser, and biological systems and other areas [1, 2].

Progress in the research activities on chaos synchronization and stabilization has given birth to various methods such as OGY method [3], PC method [7], active control method [9–13], adaptive control method [14–18], impulsive synchronization technique [19, 20], auxiliary system approach [21], backstepping method [22, 23], hybrid control [24], and sliding mode.

In this light, various linear and nonlinear techniques have been proposed for achieving control and synchronization of a wide variety of physical systems. Examples of these abounds. For instance, in ratchet systems where directed transports play prominent role, synchronization has been proposed as a mechanism for controlling directed transports [10, 11, 22, 25]; in lasers, amplified laser output intensity was reported [26] and in long Josephson junctions, the possibility of controlling rapid flux quantum device and phase-locking phenomenon among others have been demonstrated [14, 26–28].

In this paper, first, we modified the active control technique presented by Lei et al. [12] and extended to nonidentical systems [13, 29] such that the designed controller inputs based on Lyapunov stability theory and Routh-Hurwitz criteria will be used to achieve both the stabilization and synchronization in the Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC). Secondly, the method is applied such that a single control input is sufficient to achieve the stability of the controlled states. Our approach is in contrast to the usual active control technique in which the number of controllers is numerically equal to the dimension of the system. Thus, reducing considerably the controller complexity which is an important factor for practical applications [23, 30].

The Bose-Einstein condensates which we study here has been observed in trapped gases of rubidium, sodium, and lithium [31, 32]. BEC has attracted significant attention due to its potential applications. The creation of BEC has provided a platform for investigating many important phenomena in atomic physics, quantum optics, quantum computation, and so forth. The existence of BEC chaos has been proved and the chaotic properties have also been extensively researched in many previous works (see [33, 34] and references therein). Naturally, chaos, which plays a role in the regularity of the system, will cause instability of the condensate wave function. Despite the great interest in the investigation of BEC chaos, only few recent studies have been devoted to the investigation of chaos control in a BEC. For instance Chong et al. [34] employed the Ott-Grebogi-Yorke (OGY) scheme [3] to examine chaos control in a weakly coupled array of BEC. Similarly, a linear feedback obtained by adjusting the intensity of cold atoms with atomic mirrors was employed to drive the BEC system to regular state [35]. In [36], a parametric modulation of the laser intensity was employed to regulate the BEC dynamics and in particular achieve anticontrol of chaos, in which case periodic states are converted into chaotic states. It is well known that the periodic lattice systems in BEC contain many fantastic properties. For example, quantum computation with BEC atoms in a Mott insulating state is an interesting advancement in applications of the BEC. On the other hand, chaos is associated with quantum entanglement and quantum error correcting which are both the fundamental subjects in quantum computations. Thus, it is valuable to apply or control the chaos in the system.

Recently, vibrational state inversion of a Bose Einstein condensate with optimal control and state tomography was considered in [37], where they presented theoretical and experimental results on high-fidelity transfer of a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate into its first vibrationally excited eigenstate. The excitation is driven by mechanical motion of the trap along a trajectory obtained from optimal control theory. Excellent agreement between theory and experiment is found over a large range of parameters. Similarly, in [38], local exact controllability of a 1D Bose-Einstein condensate in a time-varying infinite square well (box) potential was considered. This is a nonlinear control system in which the state is the wave function of the Bose-Einstein condensate and the control is the length of the box. Here they proved that local exact controllability around the ground state (associated with a fixed length of the box) holds generically with respect to the chemical potential. Vortex synchronization in Bose-Einstein condensates vide a time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation approach was considered in [39]. In the work, they consider vortex lattices in rotating Bose-Einstein condensates composed of two species of bosons having different masses. They solved the full two-component Gross-Pitaevskii equations numerically to verify the stability of the putative locked state that is found to exist within a disc centered on the axis of rotation and that depends on the mass ratio of the two bosons.

In this paper, we propose a nonlinear control scheme to realize both chaotic synchronization and exponential stabilization of BEC. In the next section, we formulate the control theories and in Section 3 give a brief description of the system under consideration. Sections 4 and 5 are concerned with the applications of the control techniques for synchronization and stabilization of BEC, respectively. We conclude the paper in Section 6.

2. Theory

2.1. Synchronization Principle

Let us consider a driver chaotic system having the same form as in our previous paper [13] and described by

and a responding system of different form given by

where in (1), is an-dimensional state vector of the system, is a time-periodic matrix for the system parameter, and is the nonlinear part of the system. Similarly in (2), denotes the responding state vector, is a time-periodic matrix for the response system parameter, and is a controller which is to be designed. If , then systems (1) and (2) are identical, and the problem reduces to that of [12]; otherwise they are nonidentical.

The dynamic equation of synchronization error, can be expressed as

where . Thus, the objective of synchronization is to make .

Our goal is to design a suitable control input to make the dynamical system (3) asymptotically stable at the origin. The active control function can be redefined as

where is a constant feedback gain matrix.

Then, the error dynamical system (3) can be rewritten as

where and .

Theorem 1. If there exists the feedback matrixsuch that the eigenvalues of the matrixare negative real or complex with negative real parts, then the error dynamical system (5) is globally asymptotically stable at the origin, thus implying that the two nonidentical systems (1) and (2) are globally asymptotically synchronized.

Remark 2. The proof of Theorem 1 follows immediately as in [12].

2.2. Stabilization Principle

Consider the controlled chaotic system given by (1) and written as

where is a control input. Without loss of generality, let be a chaotic bounded set of (6) which is globally attractive, and suppose that is an equilibrium point embedded in . Stabilizing the chaotic orbits in (6) to its equilibrium point implies that the , where or , since , so that . For any -dimensional chaotic system, we can follow a recursive procedure and obtain the error dynamics

where is the matrix of the error dynamics. The control input can be redefined as

where is a constant feedback gain matrix. Then, the error dynamical system (7) can be rewritten in the form of (5); that is,

where and .

Theorem 3. If there exists the feedback matrixsuch that the eigenvalues of the matrixare negative real or complex with negative real parts, then the error dynamical system (9) is globally asymptotically stable at the origin, and the state variable of (6); that is, as .

3. System Description

Here, we consider the BEC system described in [35, 36], which is created in a harmonically trapped 3D potential and then loaded into a moving lattice. In principle, near the center of the magnetic trap, the magnetic potential is much weaker and when the BEC is formed in this region, can be neglected. The quasi-1D potential which plays the main role in the system is valid in the potential region, where , being the laser wave vector which fixes the velocity of the travelling lattice as . By taking into account the effect of damping caused by the incoherent exchange of normal atoms, the system is simply governed by the following Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation:

where is the atomic mass and represents the interatomic interaction; being the s-wave scattering length and is the macroscopic quantum equation. Assuming the travelling wave solution such that the matter wave is a Bloch-like wave (see [35, 36]).

Inserting into (10) we can turn the partial differential equation (10) into an ordinary differential one as follows (see [35, 36] for full details):

where and are undetermined real constants and the term proportional to represents the damping effect.

It is convenient to recast equation (11) in dimensionless variables. Now redefining the variables as , , , , and , and letting and ; then (11) in dimensionless form now reads

where the over-dots denote the derivative with respect to the re-scaled time, , is optical intensity, and . The square of the amplitude is just the particle number density because and is the phase of .

According to the general theory of the Duffing equation, underlying equation (12), has a monoclinic solution only when the coefficients of the linear and nonlinear terms on the left-hand side of (12) have opposite signs. Therefore, in order to study the chaos for the negative term we must consider the case of attractive atom-atom interactions; that is, ; (12) is just the parametrically driven Duffing equation with a damping term [36].

Solving (12) numerically using the 4th-order Runge-Kutta algorithms with the following initial conditions: and the parameters: ,,, and , the period-1 attractor (single well) is found as shown in Figure 1 and the period-1 attractor (double well) is displayed in Figure 2, where . When the parameters is ,,, and , the strange chaotic attractor projected in the () phase plane as shown in Figure 3 is obtained and its time series is shown in Figure 4. Notice that Figure 3 is similar to the plots in [35, 36], showing the chaotic state of the BEC. Figure 4 shows the time series of and one can find that the value seems random, but it is different from those noise signals without rules and seems to change following some irregularity. If a different initial condition is selected, the trajectories of system (2) would diverge since the system is deterministic and, thus, unpredictable.

Figure 1: The period-1 attractor (single well) of the BEC with .

Figure 2: The period-1 attractor (double well) of the BEC with .

Figure 3: The chaotic attractor of the BEC.

Figure 4: The time series of the chaotic attractor of the BEC.

4. Synchronization of Chaos in BEC

In this section, the method proposed in Section 2 is applied to synchronize the BEC system described in Section 3. Some global asymptotic conditions are first obtained and then further verified by numerical simulations. The synchronization control technique consists of controlling a condensate in the presence of another condensate by means of suitably designed control inputs that links both systems in a drive-response configuration. Let and ; then we expressed the BEC system in drive-response configuration as follows:

for the drive

for the response, where are active control inputs to be determined. In order to determine the control functions for system (14), that are required to synchronize it with system (13), we first define the states between the drive-response system as and and then subtract (13) from (14) to obtain the error dynamics system given by

For convenience, we redefine the active control functions and as follows:

Hence, the error system (15) becomes

Equation (17) is the error dynamics, which can be interpreted as a control problem, where the system to be controlled is a linear system with control inputs and as functions of and . As long as these feedbacks stabilize the system, . This simply implies that the two BEC systems are synchronized. We can choose the control inputs and as

where is a 2 × 2 constant feedback matrix. So that the error system (17) can be rewritten as

where is the coefficient matrix.

According to Lyapunov stability theory and Routh-Hurwitz criteria, if

then the eigenvalues of the error system (15) must be real or complex with negative real parts and stable synchronized dynamics between the two identical BEC systems is readily achievable.

The 4th-order Runge-Kutta algorithm was used to obtain the numerical solutions of (13) and (14) with a time grid of 0.001. The parameters of the BEC system were fixed as follows: ,,, and , which place the system in the chaotic state. The initial conditions are and , respectively. For this particular choice of system parameters, it can be readily shown that the matrix given by satisfy the conditions (18) and the eigenvalues of the error system is negative real or complex with negative real parts, thus leading to the synchronization of systems (13) and (14). Finally the control inputs are

where , and .

With the form of (21) satisfying the stability condition (20), we do not need to compute the conditional Lyapunov exponent (CLE) of the systems: more so the negativity of the CLE is only a necessary but not a sufficient condition for stable synchronization [40]. Note that other choices of the feedback gains () could equally satisfies the conditions (18) and thus lead to synchrony.

The simulation results when the controller (21) is activated are shown in Figure 5. It is obvious that the synchronization error converges to zero asymptotically and the two identical BEC systems indeed achieve chaos synchronization as proposed. In Figures 6 and 7, we display the behaviour of the state variables of the master and the slave systems when the control is activated at . We see clearly that the slave BEC traces the dynamics of the master BEC. This in particular suggests that the motion of the condensate with a specific dynamics can be driven to follow a desired dynamic state. The idea could be employed to drive a chaotic BEC state to a periodic one and also to achieve the anticontrol (or chaotification) [35].

Figure 5: The asymptotic convergence of the synchronization error system to zero for identical BEC system.

Figure 6: The , variables of the synchronized BEC master and slave system.

Figure 7: The and variables of the synchronized BEC master and slave system.

5. Stabilization of Chaos in BEC

Here we propose a recursive active control-to-control the evolution of chaotic state in the BEC system. The goal of the control technique is to drive the BEC system from its current chaotic state to a stable regular state , where a desired dynamic is obtained, since the chaotic property in the spatial distribution of BEC could constitute a disadvantage in many applications. The method proposed by [35, 36] relies on the knowledge of the Lyapunov exponent (LE) of the system, which is often time consuming to compute or even difficult in some cases. In our proposed method, the computation of LE is ruled out, while the stability is fully guaranteed using the Lyapunov stability theory and Routh Hurwitz criteria. Now considering the system (22) to be controlled given below

where and are control functions to be determined. Starting in a recursive manner, suppose is an arbitrarily chosen scalar input corresponding to a stable fixed point or an equilibrium point of the system (22) and is recursively introduced; is an arbitrary control parameter. Let the error signal between the current chaotic state and the desired state be given as and , respectively. Since is a stable equilibrium of the system (22), it is convenient to set the arbitrary control parameter so that , and some simple possible control inputs would drive the system to the state that could be obtained. This leads to the following error dynamics system:

Again, we find that the control problem is reduced to that of achieving the asymptotic stabilization of the zero solution of the error dynamics (23). To achieve this, we redefine the active control functions and as follows:

Hence, the error system (23) becomes

The error dynamics of (25) now takes the form of (17) derived in the synchronization process of the two BEC systems. As a result we can apply Lyapunov stability theory and Routh-Hurwitz criteria to system (25) to obtain the control functions. Proceeding as in the previous section and using the same system parameters, one can show that the matrix given by satisfies the stability criteria. Finally we obtain the following control inputs:

where , , and . Notice the nonlinear form of the controller (26) which is in contrast to the proposed controller in [36]. This is expected because in practice, due to some physical limitations, the control input usually contains nonlinear term. Significantly, nonlinearity in systems like BEC could lead to serious degradation of the system performance, decrease in speed of response, and possibly may cause chaotic perturbations to original regular behaviour if in the design process of the controller their effects are ignored [41–43]. Numerically, we implement the controller of (26) in (22), using the 4th order Runge-Kutta algorithm. The result is displayed in Figure 8. Clearly, we see that the chaotic dynamic has been driven to the stable equilibrium point, implying that the BEC chaos is globally controlled.

Figure 8: The controlled state of the BEC system.

6. Conclusions

In this paper, the synchronization between two-coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates in their chaotic states have been investigated based on a technique derived from nonlinear control theory. The nonlinear control is obtained using the active control and the controller is chosen such that a single control input is sufficient to guarantee global stability of the synchronized state. The systematic design approach of the control input does not require the calculation of the Lyapunov exponents; hence, it is simple and convenient. Besides the synchronization of two chaotic BEC systems, the method was also used to obtain a nonlinear control that is capable of driving the otherwise chaotic oscillation to a stable equilibrium state which could be expected in applications. The effectiveness and feasibility of this technique are theoretically and numerically demonstrated. We believe that such nonlinear control would find applications in the experimental control of spatial chaos in BEC. It is likely that nonlinear interactions are necessary for the stability of continuously pumped atom lasers as described in [44]. From the physical point of view, the underlying mechanism is based on the Josephson-type coupling and is well known in the solid state physics as well as in the ultracold quantum superfluid atoms.

According to Haine et al. [45] in the case of a Bose-Einstein condensate with a large nonlinear interaction, there is already coupling between different modes of oscillations. This means that each mode of feedback can remove energy from more than one mode of oscillation. This method of extracting energy from the higher modes is quite inefficient. Adding a nonlinear control improves the efficiency of the feedback because it directly removes energy from a larger range of modes.

Acknowledgments

The research work of U. E. Vincent is supported by the Royal Society of London through the Newton International Fellowship Alumni Scheme. The author acknowledges useful discussions with Peter McClintock.

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