Spectral fluctuations of a system of $N$ weakly interacting bosons in an isotropic harmonic trap are studied, with the focus on the deviations from Poisson spectral statistics, typical of a quantum integrable systems. We have utilized the ideas formulated by Makino et al. [Phys. Rev. E 67, 066205 (2003)] who have extended the approach of Berry and Robnik [J. Phys. A 17, 2413 (1984)]. Earlier investigations of the Berry conjecture [Proc. R. Soc. London, Ser. A 356, 375 (1977)] of Poisson spectral statistics mainly considered quantum systems whose classical counterparts are integrable. However, the system of $N$ weakly interacting bosons in the external trap has no classical counterpart. Also, it is a realistic and experimentally achievable system with close relation to Bose-Einstein condensation. Thus, a stringent analysis of the applicability of the Berry conjecture to this kind of systems is indeed required. We observe that for small boson number, the system is close to integrability and the nearest-neighbor level spacing distribution and the level number variance exhibit deviations from Poisson statistics similar to those of rational rectangular billiards.

• Received 21 May 2014
• Corrected 5 December 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.90.052137