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Physical Review Letters

Quantum irreversibility and chaos

Luca Bonci, Roberto Roncaglia, Bruce J. West, Paolo Grigolini A

Published Nov 4, 1991• 51 citations
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Abstract

We study the Hamiltonian of a two-level system interacting with a one-mode radiation field by means of the Wigner method and without using the rotating-wave approximation. We show that a phenomenon of collapses and revival, reminiscent of that exhibited by the Jaynes-Cumming model, takes place in the high coupling limit. This process appears as irreversible or virtually reversible, according to whether the semiclassical regime is chaotic or not. Thus we find a new mechanism for dissipation in the quantum domain.

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10.1103/physrevlett.67.2593

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