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arxiv: quant-ph/0601139 · v1 · submitted 2006-01-20 · 🪐 quant-ph · nlin.CD

Quantum-classical correspondence on compact phase space

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keywords classicalphasespacecorrespondencequantum-classicalcompactquantumtime
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We propose to study the $L^2$-norm distance between classical and quantum phase space distributions, where for the latter we choose the Wigner function, as a global phase space indicator of quantum-classical correspondence. For example, this quantity should provide a key to understand the correspondence between quantum and classical Loschmidt echoes. We concentrate on fully chaotic systems with compact (finite) classical phase space. By means of numerical simulations and heuristic arguments we find that the quantum-classical fidelity stays at one up to Ehrenfest-type time scale, which is proportional to the logarithm of effective Planck constant, and decays exponentially with a maximal classical Lyapunov exponent, after that time.

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