Chaos, Dissipation and Quantal Brownian Motion
arXiv:chao-dyn/9909024
Abstract
Energy absorption by driven chaotic systems, the theory of energy spreading and quantal Brownian motion are considered. In particular we discuss the theory of a classical particle that interacts with quantal chaotic degrees of freedom, and try to relate it to the problem of quantal particle that interacts with an effective harmonic bath.
36-page lecture notes of the course in Varenna school, Session CXLIII "New Directions in Quantum Chaos", Italy (July 1999)