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Motivated by recent experimental progress to read out quantum bits implemented in superconducting circuits via the phenomenon of dynamical bifurcation, transitions between steady orbits in a driven anharmonic oscillator, the Duffing…

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The fundamental correspondence between quantum chaotic single-particle systems and random matrix theory is well-understood via periodic orbit theory. In contrast, we show that many-body systems with explicit subsystem structure possess…

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Describing general quantum many-body dynamics is a challenging task due to the exponential growth of the Hilbert space with system size. The time-dependent variational principle (TDVP) provides a powerful tool to tackle this task by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Elena Petrova , Marko Ljubotina , Gökhan Yalnız , Maksym Serbyn

Spectral properties of the Hamiltonian function which characterizes a trapped ion are investigated. In order to study semiclassical dynamics of trapped ions, coherent state orbits are introduced as sub-manifolds of the quantum state space,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 Bogdan M. Mihalcea

A brief review of the manifestations of classical chaos observed in atomic systems is presented. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of atomic spectra by periodic orbit-type theories. For diamagnetic non-hydrogenic Rydberg atoms,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. A. Dando , T. S. Monteiro

Using the quantum trajectories approach we study the quantum dynamics of a dissipative chaotic system described by the Zaslavsky map. For strong dissipation the quantum wave function in the phase space collapses onto a compact packet which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gabriel G. Carlo , Giuliano Benenti , Dima L. Shepelyansky

The asymptotic distance between trajectories $d_{\infty}$, is studied in detail to characterize the occurrence of chaos. We show that this quantity is quite distinct and complementary to the Lyapunov exponents, and it allows for a…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 Virgil Baran , Aldo Bonasera

The fine grained energy spectrum of quantum chaotic systems is widely believed to be described by random matrix statistics. A basic scale in such a system is the energy range over which this behavior persists. We define the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-11 Hrant Gharibyan , Masanori Hanada , Stephen H. Shenker , Masaki Tezuka

It is widely recognized that entanglement generation and dynamical chaos are intimately related in semiclassical models via the process of decoherence. In this work, we propose a unifying framework which directly connects the bipartite and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Alessio Lerose , Silvia Pappalardi

When placed in parallel magnetic and electric fields, the electron trajectories of a classical hydrogen atom are chaotic. The classical escape rate of such a system can be computed with classical trajectory Monte Carlo techniques, but these…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-21 Ethan T. Custodio , Sulimon Sattari , Kevin A. Mitchell

We construct a field theory to describe energy averaged quantum statistical properties of systems which are chaotic in their classical limit. An expression for the generating function of general statistical correlators is presented in the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. V. Andreev , B. D. Simons , O. Agam , B. L. Altshuler

Despite considerable progress during the last decades in devising a semiclassical theory for classically chaotic quantum systems a quantitative semiclassical understanding of their dynamics at late times (beyond the so-called Heisenberg…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-23 Daniel Waltner , Klaus Richter

A fundamental requirement for the emergence of classical behavior from an underlying quantum description is that certain observed quantum systems make a transition to chaotic dynamics as their action is increased relative to $\hbar$. While…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Jason F. Ralph , Kurt Jacobs , Mark J. Everitt

The quantum-classical correspondence for dynamics of the nonlinear classically chaotic systems is analysed. The problem of quantum chaos consists of two parts: the quasiclassical quantisation of the chaotic systems and attempts to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 B. Kaulakys

We consider the quantum evolution of classically chaotic systems in contact with surroundings. Based on $\hbar$-scaling of an equation for time evolution of the Wigner's quasi-probability distribution function in presence of dissipation and…

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Discrete time quasi-crystals are non-equilibrium quantum phenomena with quasi-periodic order in the time dimension, and are an extension of the discrete time-crystal phase. As a natural platform to explore the non-equilibrium phase of…

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Via evaluation of the Lyapunov exponent, we report the discovery of three prominent sets of phase space regimes of quasi-periodic orbits of charged particles trapped in a dipole magnetic field. Besides the low energy regime that has been…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-03 Yuxin Xie , Siming Liu

We discuss the quantum--classical correspondence in a specific dissipative chaotic system, Duffing oscillator. We quantize it on the basis of quantum state diffusion (QSD) which is a certain formulation for open quantum systems and an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-06 Yukihiro Ota , Ichiro Ohba

We explore the quantum chaos of the coadjoint orbit action. We study quantum fluctuation around a saddle point to evaluate the soft mode contribution to the out-of-time-ordered correlator. We show that the stability condition of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-15 Junggi Yoon

Systems whose underlying classical dynamics are chaotic exhibit signatures of the chaos in their quantum mechanics. We investigate the possibility of using time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) to study the case when chaos is…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Adam Wasserman , Neepa T. Maitra , Eric J. Heller