SEMICLASSICAL DYNAMICS IN THE STRONGLY CHAOTIC REGIME - BREAKING THE LOG TIME BARRIER

被引:78
作者
OCONNOR, PW [1 ]
TOMSOVIC, S [1 ]
HELLER, EJ [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV WASHINGTON,DEPT CHEM,SEATTLE,WA 98195
来源
PHYSICA D | 1992年 / 55卷 / 3-4期
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1016/0167-2789(92)90064-T
中图分类号
O29 [应用数学];
学科分类号
070104 ;
摘要
We investigate the behavior of the quantum baker's transformation, a system whose classical analogue is completely chaotic, for time scales where the classical mechanics generates phase space structures on a scale smaller than Planck's constant (i.e., past the log time t* approximately 1n h-1). Surprisingly, we find that a semiclassical theory can accurately reproduce many features of the quantum evolution of a wave packet in this strongly mixing time regime.
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页码:340 / 357
页数:18
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