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Towards a definition of the Quantum Ergodic Hierarchy: Kolmogorov and Bernoulli systems

Quantum Physics 2014-11-13 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

In this paper we translate the two higher levels of the Ergodic Hierarchy [1], the Kolmogorov level and the Bernoulli level, to quantum language. Moreover, this paper can be considered as the second part of [2]. As in paper [2], we consider the formalism where the states are positive functionals on the algebra of observables and we use the properties of the Wigner transform [3]. We illustrate the physical relevance of the Quantum Ergodic Hierarchy with two emblematic examples of the literature: the Casati-Prosen model [4], [5] and the kicked rotator [6], [7], [8].

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@article{arxiv.1301.7278,
  title  = {Towards a definition of the Quantum Ergodic Hierarchy: Kolmogorov and Bernoulli systems},
  author = {Mario Castagnino and Ignacio Gomez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.7278},
  year   = {2014}
}