Quantum–classical correspondence on compact phase space

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/19/6/013zbMATH Open1238.81156arXivquant-ph/0601139OpenAlexW2171736392WikidataQ59454083 ScholiaQ59454083MaRDI QIDQ5488818FDOQ5488818

Authors: Martin Horvat, Tomaž Prosen, Mirko Degli Esposti 

Publication date: 25 September 2006

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose to study the $L^2$-norm distance between classical and quantum phase space distributions, where for the latter we choose the Wigner function, as a global phase space indicator of quantum-classical correspondence. For example, this quantity should provide a key to understand the correspondence between quantum and classical Loschmidt echoes. We concentrate on fully chaotic systems with compact (finite) classical phase space. By means of numerical simulations and heuristic arguments we find that the quantum-classical fidelity stays at one up to Ehrenfest-type time scale, which is proportional to the logarithm of effective Planck constant, and decays exponentially with a maximal classical Lyapunov exponent, after that time.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0601139

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zbMATH Keywords

Wigner functionEhrenfest timeLoschmidt echoes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

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