We study the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of a weakly interacting one-dimensional Bose gas in a box trap, subjected to a drive realized by a periodically oscillating linear potential. After a transient regime, the gas reaches a quasisteady state, characterized by the presence of several solitons. At weak driving amplitude, the solitons are only weakly perturbed by one another, while at strong driving amplitude a regime analogous to turbulence is reached, where the solitons are strongly intertwined with each other. We show that a hallmark of both regimes can be found in the momentum distribution, which displays a power-law decay $n\left(k\right)\sim k^{-2}$ at weak driving amplitude and $n\left(k\right)\sim k^{-\alpha }$ with a power-law exponent $\alpha \in [7,9]$ at large amplitude. We further characterize each of the two regimes by following the space-time maps and characterizing the solitons using the inverse scattering transform. The protocol analyzed in this study is amenable to experimental realization in current experimental setups.

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• Bose gases
• Bose-Einstein condensates
• Solitons
• Ultracold gases