Semiquantum chaos and the large N expansion

DOI10.1016/0167-2789(94)00251-KMaRDI QIDQ994873zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Fred Cooper, Salman Habib, Yuval Kluger, Harvey Shepard, John F. Dawson, D. C. Meredith

Publication date 13 September 2010

Published in Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9411004

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10) Quantum chaos (81Q50)

Abstract: We consider the dynamical system consisting of a quantum degree of freedom $A$ interacting with $N$ quantum oscillators described by the Lagrangian �q L = {1over 2}dot{A}^2 + sum_{i=1}^{N} left{{1over 2}dot{x}_i^2 - {1over 2}( m^2 + e^2 A^2)x_i^2 ight}. eq In the limit $Nightarrowinfty$, with $e^{2}N$ fixed, the quantum fluctuations in $A$ are of order $1/N$. In this limit, the $x$ oscillators behave as harmonic oscillators with a time dependent mass determined by the solution of a semiclassical equation for the expectation value $VEVA(t)$. This system can be described, when $VEVx(t)=0$, by a classical Hamiltonian for the variables $G(t)=VEV{x}^2(t)$, $dotG(t)$, $A_c(t)=VEVA(t)$, and $dot{A}_c(t)$. The dynamics of this latter system turns out to be chaotic. We propose to study the nature of this large-$N$ limit by considering both the exact quantum system as well as by studying an expansion in powers of $1/N$ for the equations of motion using the closed time path formalism of quantum dynamics.

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