A linear chaotic quantum harmonic oscillator

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Abstract: We show that a linear quantum harmonic oscillator is chaotic in the sense of Li-Yorke. We also prove that the weighted backward shift map, used as an infinite dimensional linear chaos model, in a separable Hilbert space is chaotic in the sense of Li-Yorke, in addition to being chaotic in the sense of Devaney.


This very brief article examines the chaoticity in the sense of Li and Yorke of two linear operators on \(L^2(\mathbb R)\). The first, which is known to be topologically transitive, is shown to support a chaotic set in the sense of Li and Yorke. This (a little unclearly) shows Li-Yorke-chaoticity of a quantum oscillator. The second (related), parameter dependent operator, which is known to be Devaney-chaotic, is analogously argued to be Li-Yorke-chaotic for a range of parameter values and non-chaotic for the rest.











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