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Environment-induced dynamical chaos

Chaotic Dynamics 2009-10-31 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We examine the interplay of nonlinearity of a dynamical system and thermal fluctuation of its environment in the ``physical limit'' of small damping and slow diffusion in a semiclassical context and show that the trajectories of c-number variables exhibit dynamical chaos due to the thermal fluctuations of the bath.

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@article{arxiv.nlin/0005037,
  title  = {Environment-induced dynamical chaos},
  author = {Bidhan Chandra Bag and Deb Shankar Ray},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0005037},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Revtex, 4 pages and 4 figures