Quantum chaotic environments, the butterfly effect, and decoherence.
We investigate the sensitivity of quantum systems that are chaotic in a classical limit to small perturbations of their equations of motion. This sensitivity, originally studied in the context of defining quantum chaos, is relevant to decoherence when the environment has a chaotic classical counterpart.
Karkusz ewski
Zbys ek P
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Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
Jar ynski
Christopher
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Zurek
Wojciech H
WH