Semiquantum Chaos and the Large N Expansion

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1994-11-08

arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9411004v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Chaotic Dynamics

30 pages, uuencoded LaTeX file (figures included)

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We consider the dynamical system consisting of a quantum degree of freedom $A$ interacting with $N$ quantum oscillators described by the Lagrangian \bq L = {1\over 2}\dot{A}^2 + \sum_{i=1}^{N} \left\{{1\over 2}\dot{x}_i^2 - {1\over 2}( m^2 + e^2 A^2)x_i^2 \right\}. \eq In the limit $N \rightarrow \infty$, with $e^2 N$ fixed, the quantum fluctuations in $A$ are of order $1/N$. In this limit, the $x$ oscillators behave as harmonic oscillators with a time dependent mass determined by the solution of a semiclassical equation for the expectation value $\VEV{A(t)}$. This system can be described, when $\VEV{x(t)}= 0$, by a classical Hamiltonian for the variables $G(t) = \VEV{x^2(t)}$, $\dot{G}(t)$, $A_c(t) = \VEV{A(t)}$, and $\dot{A_c}(t)$. The dynamics of this latter system turns out to be chaotic. We propose to study the nature of this large-$N$ limit by considering both the exact quantum system as well as by studying an expansion in powers of $1/N$ for the equations of motion using the closed time path formalism of quantum dynamics.

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