An example of the decoherence approach to quantum dissipative chaos

DOI10.1016/0375-9601(95)00605-3MaRDI QIDQ1965713zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Todd A. Brun

Publication date 8 February 2000

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9508022

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum chaos (81Q50)

Abstract: Quantum chaos---the study of quantized nonintegrable Hamiltonian systems---is an extremely well-developed and sophisticated field. By contrast, very little work has been done in looking at quantum versions of systems which classically exhibit {it dissipative} chaos. Using the decoherence formalism of Gell-Mann and Hartle, I find a quantum mechanical analog of one such system, the forced damped Duffing oscillator. I demonstrate the classical limit of the system, and discuss its decoherent histories. I show that using decoherent histories, one can define not only the quantum map of an entire density operator, but can find an analog to the Poincar'e map of the individual trajectory. Finally, I argue the usefulness of this model as an example of quantum dissipative chaos, as well as of a practical application of the decoherence formalism to an interesting problem.

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• Chaos in classical and quantum mechanics
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• Path integral approach to quantum Brownian motion
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• Quantum coherence, evolution of the Wigner function, and transition from quantum to classical dynamics for a chaotic system

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