Quantum Chaotic Environments, The Butterfly Effect, And Decoherence

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1 November 2001

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.quant-ph/0111002

Abstract

We investigate the sensitivity of quantum systems that are chaotic in a classical limit, to small perturbations of their equations of motion. This sensitivity, originally studied in the context of defining quantum chaos, is relevant to decoherence in situations when the environment has a chaotic classical counterpart.

Keywords

SYSTEMS THAT ARE CHAOTIC
CHAOTIC ENVIRONMENTS
EQUATIONS OF MOTION
BUTTERFLY EFFECT
QUANTUM CHAOTIC
DECOHERENCE
CHAOS

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Version 1, 2001-11-01, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review Letters, 89 (17), 170405.

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