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A class of time independent and physically meaningful Hamiltonians leads to evolution of observable quantities whose Ehrenfest times are arbitrarily large. This fact contradicts the popular claim that the true chaos is in quantum mechanics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-09 Maciej Kuna

Quantum and classical systems evolving under the same formal Hamiltonian $H$ may dramatically differ after the Ehrenfest timescale $t_E \sim \log(\hbar^{-1})$, even as $\hbar \to 0$. Coupling the system to a Markovian environment results in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Felipe Hernández , Daniel Ranard , C. Jess Riedel

We perform numerical studies of the wave packet propagation through open quantum billiards whose classical counterparts exhibit regular and chaotic dynamics. We show that for t less or similar to tau (tau being the Heisenberg time), the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 I. V. Zozoulenko , T. Blomquist

We analyze the semiclassical evolution of Gaussian wavepackets in chaotic systems. We prove that after some short time a Gaussian wavepacket becomes a primitive WKB state. From then on, the state can be propagated using the standard TDWKB…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Raphael N. P. Maia , Fernando Nicacio , Raul O. Vallejos , Fabricio Toscano

The Ehrenfest dynamics, representing a quantum-classical mean-field type coupling, is a widely used approximation in quantum molecular dynamics. In this paper, we propose a time-splitting method for an Ehrenfest dynamics, in the form of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Di Fang , Shi Jin , Christof Sparber

An initial coherent state is propagated exactly by a kicked quantum Hamiltonian and its associated classical stroboscopic map. The classical trajectories within the initial state are regular for low kicking strengths, then bifurcate and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-07-16 Gabriel M. Lando , Alfredo M. Ozorio de Almeida

We present a trajectory-based semiclassical calculation of the Ehrenfest-time dependence of the weak localization correction and the universal conductance fluctuations of a ballistic quantum dot with ideal point contacts. While the weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-22 Piet W. Brouwer , Saar Rahav

A semiclassical approximation is derived by using a family of wavepackets to map arbitrary wavefunctions into phase space. If the Hamiltonian can be approximated as linear over each individual wavepacket, as often done when presenting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Clay D. Spence

We study the semiclassical Ehrenfest trajectories in open quantum systems. We first derive in explicit form the Fokker-Planck equation that governs the time evolution of the mixing measure for a Gaussian mixture. Then, we embed the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Xiao-Kan Guo

We address the decay in open chaotic quantum systems and calculate semiclassical corrections to the classical exponential decay. We confirm random matrix predictions and, going beyond, calculate Ehrenfest time effects. To support our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniel Waltner , Martha Gutierrez , Arseni Goussev , Klaus Richter

The semiclassical long-time limit of free evolution of quantum wave packets on the torus is under consideration. Despite of simplicity of this system, there are still open questions concerning the detailed description of the evolution on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 A. S. Trushechkin

We prove six theorems concerning exponentially accurate semiclassical quantum mechanics. Two of these theorems are known results, but have new proofs. Under appropriate hypotheses, they conclude that the exact and approximate dynamics of an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 George A. Hagedorn , Alain Joye

The quantum kicked rotor (QKR) is known to exhibit dynamical localization in the space of its angular momentum. The present paper is devoted to the systematic first--principal (without a regularizer) diagrammatic calculations of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Tian , A. Kamenev , A. Larkin

In chaotic quantum systems, an initially localized quantum state can deviate strongly from the corresponding classical phase-space distribution after the Ehrenfest time $t_{\mathrm{E}} \sim \log(\hbar^{-1})$, even in the limit $\hbar \to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Felipe Hernández , Daniel Ranard , C. Jess Riedel

States supported by chaotic open quantum systems fall into two categories: a majority showing instantaneous ballistic decay, and a set of quantum resonances of classically vanishing support in phase space. We present a theory describing…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-12 T. Micklitz , A. Altland

The work distribution is a fundamental quantity in nonequilibrium thermodynamics mainly due to its connection with fluctuations theorems. Here we develop a semiclassical approximation to the work distribution for a quench process in chaotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Ignacio García-Mata , Augusto J. Roncaglia , Diego A. Wisniacki

We study the semiclassical propagation of squeezed Gau{\ss}ian states. We do so by considering the propagation theorem introduced by Combescure and Robert \cite{CR97} approximating the evolution generated by the Weyl-quantization of symbols…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eric Sträng

The Ehrenfest time scale in quantum transport separates essentially classical propagation from wave interference and here we consider its effect on the transmission and reflection through quantum dots. In particular we calculate the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-17 Daniel Waltner , Jack Kuipers

Classically integrable approximants are here constructed for a family of predominantly chaotic periodic systems by means of the Baker-Hausdorff-Campbell formula. We compare the evolving wave density for the corresponding exact quantum…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-26 Gabriel M. Lando , Alfredo M. Ozorio de Almeida

We consider the semiclassical limit of the spectral form factor $K(\tau)$ of fully chaotic dynamics. Starting from the Gutzwiller type double sum over classical periodic orbits we set out to recover the universal behavior predicted by…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Heusler , Sebastian Müller , Petr Braun , Fritz Haake