Relaxation time of quantized toral maps

DOI10.1007/S00023-005-0246-4MaRDI QIDQ818914zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stéphane Nonnenmacher, Lech Wołowski, Albert Fannjiang

Publication date 22 March 2006

Published in Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0406055

zbMATH Keywords

Anosov mapsdissipation timeDynamical systemsnoisequantizationrelaxation time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Uniformly hyperbolic systems (expanding, Anosov, Axiom A, etc.) (37D20) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Quantum chaos (81Q50)

Abstract: We introduce the notion of the relaxation time for noisy quantum maps on the 2d-dimensional torus - a generalization of previously studied dissipation time. We show that relaxation time is sensitive to the chaotic behavior of the corresponding classical system if one simultaneously considers the semiclassical limit ($hbar$ -> 0) together with the limit of small noise strength ($ep$ -> 0). Focusing on quantized smooth Anosov maps, we exhibit a semiclassical regime $hbar<e{p}^E$ << 1 (where E>1) in which classical and quantum relaxation times share the same asymptotics: in this regime, a quantized Anosov map relaxes to equilibrium fast, as the classical map does. As an intermediate result, we obtain rigorous estimates of the quantum-classical correspondence for noisy maps on the torus, up to times logarithmic in $hba{r}^{-1}$. On the other hand, we show that in the ``quantum regime $ep$ << $hbar$ << 1, quantum and classical relaxation times behave very differently. In the special case of ergodic toral symplectomorphisms (generalized ``Arnold's cat maps), we obtain the exact asymptotics of the quantum relaxation time and precise the regime of correspondence between quantum and classical relaxations.

Review text

The relaxation time of a dynamical system subjected to noise is defined as the time after which the distance of the system to equilibrium is reduced to a given factor. In conservative classical systems, this distance is expressed in terms of the mean square fluctuations of the probability density of the system with respect to the equilibrium density. In this paper, the authors present a study of relaxation time for quantum dynamical systems constructed by quantization of volume-preserving maps on the torus \({\mathbb T}^{2d}\), in which the noise is given by convolution-type operators. They exhibit a semiclassical regime \(\hbar < \varepsilon^E\ll 1\), \(E>1\), in which the classical and quantum relaxation times of Anosov maps share the same asymptotics, and a quantum regime \(\varepsilon \ll \hbar\ll 1\) in which quantum and classical relaxation times have different behaviours.

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