Recovery of chaotic tunneling due to destruction of dynamical localization by external noise.
Quantum tunneling in the presence of chaos is analyzed, focusing especially on the interplay between quantum tunneling and dynamical localization. We observed flooding of potentially existing tunneling amplitude by adding noise to the chaotic sea to attenuate the destructive interference generating dynamical localization. This phenomenon is related to the nature of complex orbits describing tunneling between torus and chaotic regions. The tunneling rate is found to obey a perturbative scaling with noise intensity when the noise intensity is sufficiently small and then saturate in a large noise intensity regime. A relation between the tunneling rate and the localization length of the chaotic states is also demonstrated. It is shown that due to the competition between dynamical tunneling and dynamical localization, the tunneling rate is not a monotonically increasing function of Planck's constant. The above results are obtained for a system with a sharp border between torus and chaotic regions. The validity of the results for a system with a smoothed border is also explained.
Ishikawa
Akiyuki
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Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan.
Tanaka
Atushi
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Shudo
Akira
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D003198:Computer Simulation; D015233:Models, Statistical; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D011789:Quantum Theory