title: Environment-induced dynamical chaos
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.
authors.affiliation: Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Calcutta 700 032, India.
authors.lastname: Chandra Bag B
authors.lastname: Shankar Ray D