Chaotic Bloch oscillations in driven-dissipative systems

Abstract

It is shown that the efficiency of the excitation of Bloch oscillations depends not only on the carrier frequency, but also on the frequency of the amplitude oscillations of the driving force. In the nonlinear regime a period doubling bifurcation occurs and the chain of these bifurcations results in chaotic Bloch oscillations of the wave envelope bouncing in the system.