title: Quantum coherence, evolution of the Wigner function, and transition from quantum to classical dynamics for a chaotic system.
abstract: The paper deals with dynamics of a quantum chaotic system under influence of an environment. The effect of an environment is known to destroy the quantum coherence and can convert the quantum dynamics of a system to classical. We use a semiclassical technique for studying the process of decoherence. The condition for transition from quantum to classical dynamics is obtained in general form and checked numerically for a particular chaotic system, known as quantum the standard map on a torus. The relevance of the obtained results to the problem of correspondence between quantum and classical mechanics is briefly discussed. (c) 1996 American Institute of Physics.
authors.affiliation: L. V. Kirensky Institute of Physics, 660036 Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
authors.forename: Andrey R.
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Kolovsky