title: Recovery of classically chaotic behavior in a noise-driven quantum system.
abstract: The quantum kicked rotor is studied in a regime of high amplitude noise. A transition to diffusive behavior is observed as dynamical localization, characterized by suppressed diffusion and exponential momentum distributions, is completely destroyed by noise. With increasing noise amplitude, further transition to classical behavior is shown through an accurate quantitative analysis, which demonstrates that both the energy growth and the momentum distributions are reaching their classical limits. The importance of short-time correlations in the recovery of classically chaotic behavior is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1081, USA.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Milner
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Steck
authors.forename: W H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Oskay
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Raizen