Decoherence and the rate of entropy production in chaotic quantum systems

Details Decoherence and the rate of entropy production in chaotic quantum systems Decoherence and the rate of entropy production in chaotic quantum systems

2000-07-17

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0007052v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

Revtex, 4 pages, 3 figures included

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3373

We show that for an open quantum system which is classically chaotic (a quartic double well with harmonic driving coupled to a sea of harmonic oscillators) the rate of entropy production has, as a function of time, two relevant regimes: For short times it is proportional to the diffusion coefficient (fixed by the system--environment coupling strength). For longer times (but before equilibration) there is a regime where the entropy production rate is fixed by the Lyapunov exponent. The nature of the transition time between both regimes is investigated.

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