Statistical Approach to Quantum Chaotic Ratchets

Abstract

The quantum ratchet effect in fully chaotic systems is approached by studying, for the first time, \emph{statistical} properties of the ratchet current over well-defined sets of initial states. Natural initial states in a semiclassical regime are those that are \emph{phase-space uniform} with the \emph{maximal possible} resolution of one Planck cell. General arguments in this regime, for quantum-resonance values of a scaled Planck constant $\hslash$, predict that the distribution of the current over all such states is a zero-mean Gaussian with variance $\sim D{\hslash }^2/(2{\pi }^2)$, where $D$ is the chaotic-diffusion coefficient. This prediction is well supported by extensive numerical evidence. The average strength of the effect, measured by the variance above, is \emph{significantly larger} than that for the usual momentum states and other states. Such strong effects should be experimentally observable.

REVTEX4, 13 pages, 4 figures

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