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We have revealed that the barrier-tunneling process in non-integrable systems is strongly linked to chaos in complex phase space by investigating a simple scattering map model. The semiclassical wavefunction reproduces complicated features…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Onishi , A. Shudo , K. S. Ikeda , K. Takahashi

We use path-integrals to derive a general expression for the semiclassical approximation to the partition function of a one-dimensional quantum-mechanical system. Our expression depends solely on ordinary integrals which involve the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 C. A. A. de Carvalho , R. M. Cavalcanti

We present a comprehensive account of directed transport in one-dimensional Hamiltonian systems with spatial and temporal periodicity. They can be considered as Hamiltonian ratchets in the sense that ensembles of particles can show directed…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Holger Schanz , Thomas Dittrich , Roland Ketzmerick

We use path-integrals to derive a general expression for the semiclassical approximation to the partition function of a one-dimensional quantum-mechanical system. Our expression depends solely on ordinary integrals which involve the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. A. A. de Carvalho , R. M. Cavalcanti

A semiclassical method of complex trajectories for the calculation of the tunneling exponent in systems with many degrees of freedom is further developed. It is supplemented with an easily implementable technique, which enables one to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Bezrukov , D. Levkov

Quantum tunneling in the presence of chaos is analyzed, focusing especially on the interplay between quantum tunneling and dynamical localization. We observed flooding of potentially existing tunneling amplitude by adding noise to the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-09 Akiyuki Ishikawa , Atushi Tanaka , Akira Shudo

We explain the mechanism leading to directed chaotic transport in Hamiltonian systems with spatial and temporal periodicity. We show that a mixed phase space comprising both regular and chaotic motion is required and derive a classical sum…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Holger Schanz , Marc-Felix Otto , Roland Ketzmerick , Thomas Dittrich

We derive a trace formula for the splitting-weighted density of states suitable for chaotic potentials with isolated symmetric wells. This formula is based on complex orbits which tunnel through classically forbidden barriers. The theory is…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 Stephen C. Creagh , Niall D. Whelan

We investigate the tunneling process between two symmetric stable islands of a forced pendulum Hamiltonian in the weak chaos regime. We show that when the tunneling doublet is quantized over a classical non-linear resonance the tunneling…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Luca Bonci , Andrea Farusi , Paolo Grigolini , Roberto Roncaglia

We derive a stochastic path integral representation of counting statistics in semi-classical systems. The formalism is introduced on the simple case of a single chaotic cavity with two quantum point contacts, and then further generalized to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Pilgram , A. N. Jordan , E. V. Sukhorukov , M. Buttiker

For systems with a mixed phase space we demonstrate that dynamical tunneling universally leads to a fractional power law of the level-spacing distribution P(s) over a wide range of small spacings s. Going beyond Berry-Robnik statistics, we…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-02-02 Arnd Bäcker , Roland Ketzmerick , Steffen Löck , Normann Mertig

Generic Hamiltonian systems have a mixed phase space where regions of regular and chaotic motion coexist. We present a method for constructing an integrable approximation to such regular phase-space regions including a nonlinear resonance…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-22 Julius Kullig , Clemens Löbner , Normann Mertig , Arnd Bäcker , Roland Ketzmerick

We study the quantum tunnel effect through a potential barrier employing a semiclassical formulation of quantum mechanics based on expectation values of configuration variables and quantum dispersions as dynamical variables. The evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 L. Aragon-Muñoz , G. Chacon-Acosta , H. Hernandez-Hernandez

Tunnelling from a chaotic potential well is explained in terms of a set of complex periodic orbits which contain information about the real dynamics inside the well as well as the complex dynamics under the confining barrier. These orbits…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Stephen C. Creagh , Niall D. Whelan

Quantum mechanical real-time tunneling through general scattering potentials is studied in the semiclassical limit. It is shown that the exact path integral of the real-time propagator is dominated in the long time sector by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Joachim Ankerhold , Markus Saltzer

Over the preceeding twenty years, the role of underlying classical dynamics in quantum mechanical tunneling has received considerable attention. A number of new tunneling phenomena have been uncovered that have been directly linked to the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Steven Tomsovic

We present a trajectory-based semiclassical calculation of the full counting statistics of quantum transport through chaotic cavities, in the regime of many open channels. Our method to obtain the $m$th moment of the density of transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-03 G. Berkolaiko , J. M. Harrison , M. Novaes

Generic Hamiltonian systems have a mixed phase space, where classically disjoint regions of regular and chaotic motion coexist. We present an iterative method to construct an integrable approximation, which resembles the regular dynamics of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-12-06 Clemens Löbner , Steffen Löck , Arnd Bäcker , Roland Ketzmerick

The slow deformation of terrestrial orbits in the medium range, subject to lunisolar resonances, is well approximated by a family of Hamiltonian flow with $2.5$ degree-of-freedom. The action variables of the system may experience chaotic…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-23 Jerome Daquin , Ioannis Gkolias , Aaron J. Rosengren

Spatio-temporally chaotic dynamics of a classical field can be described by means of an infinite hierarchy of its unstable spatio-temporally periodic solutions. The periodic orbit theory yields the global averages characterizing the chaotic…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Predrag Cvitanovic