Physical Review Letters

Fractal Survival Probability Fluctuations

Giulio Casati, Italo Guarneri, Giulio Maspero

Published Jan 3, 2000• 59 citations

Abstract

We study fluctuations of survival probability in an open quantum system classically described by a map with a mixed phase space. Our results provide the first numerical support to theoretical predictions that such fluctuations have a fractal structure, quantitatively related to the algebraic decay of the classical survival probability.

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.84.63

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