Quantum dephasing by chaos
arXiv:quant-ph/9605012 · doi:10.1016/0375-9601(96)00647-0
Abstract
We examine whether the chaotic behavior of classical systems with a limited number of degrees of freedom can produce quantum dephasing, against the conventional idea that dephasing takes place only in large systems with a huge number of constituents and complicated internal interactions. On the basis of this analysis, we briefly discuss the possibility of defining quantum chaos and of inventing a ``chaos detector".
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