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Phys. Rev. E 75, 036221 (2007) [4 pages]

Quantum entropy dynamics for chaotic systems beyond the classical limit

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Arnaldo Gammal1 and Arjendu K. Pattanayak2
1Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, CEP 05315-970 Caixa Postal 66318, São Paulo, Brazil
2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota 55057, USA

Received 9 March 2006; revised 14 December 2006; published 29 March 2007

The entropy production rate for an open quantum system with a classically chaotic limit has been previously argued to be independent of and D, the parameter denoting coupling to the environment, and to be equal to the sum of generalized Lyapunov exponents, with these results applying in the near-classical regime. We present results for a specific system going well beyond earlier work, considering how these dynamics are altered for the Duffing problem by changing ,D and show that the entropy dynamics have a transition from classical to quantum behavior that scales, at least for a finite time, as a function of 2D.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.75.036221
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevE.75.036221
PACS:
05.45.Mt, 03.65.Sq