Quantum Chaotic Environments, the Butterfly Effect, and Decoherence
- 8 October 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 89 (17) , 170405
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.89.170405
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 when the environment has a chaotic classical counterpart.Keywords
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