From Chaos and Strange Attractors to Quantum Theory

Cole Bernard Cecchetto

Ervin Goldfain

An open debate exists nowadays on how to properly connect chaos theory and strange attractors, on the one hand, to Quantum Field Theory (QFT) and Quantum Mechanics (QM) on the other. We post here a condensed flow-chart reflecting our personal view on this connection.

Klimenty N. Yugay, Stanislav D. Tvorogov

A theory allowing to describe of quantum chaos in the term of nonlinear classical dynamics is proposed. It is showed that a solution of a quantum problem in quasiclassical region is connected with a solution of a corresponding classical problem which is the classical limit of the quantum one. It is showed also that the wave function phase is satisfied an own equation of motion and it is a classical dynamic equation. Dynamical chaos of nonlinear classical dynamics results to irregularity of the wave function phase and a strange attractor in a classical dynamics of the wave function phase leads to irregularity in probabilities of transitions of anharmonic oscillator in an external time-dependent field. In the pure quantum and the pure classical region corresponding solutions are independent.

Giulio Casati

Graham P. Collins

Ángel L. Corps, Armando Relaño

We investigate the connection between classical and quantum chaos in a dissipative system of two coupled collective spins. Although the classical dynamics possesses a stable fixed-point attractor, we find pronounced signatures of chaos in the transient dynamics preceding relaxation. In the quantum model, such transient chaos is accompanied by a transition to random-matrix statistics in the relevant part of the Liouvillian spectrum and by a qualitative increase in the number of Liouvillian modes contributing to expectation values of physical observables. The transition occurs before the bifurcation at which the stable fixed point disappears and a chaotic attractor emerges. Our results show that Liouvillian quantum chaos can be associated with transient classical chaos, rather than requiring a chaotic asymptotic attractor, and provide a refinement of the Grobe-Haake-Sommers conjecture.