Fidelity Decay as an Efficient Indicator of Quantum Chaos

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2002-07-17

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0207099v3

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 284102 (2002)

Physics

Quantum Physics

4 pages, 3 figures, LaTeX; published version (revised introduction and discussion)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.284102

Recent work has connected the type of fidelity decay in perturbed quantum models to the presence of chaos in the associated classical models. We demonstrate that a system's rate of fidelity decay under repeated perturbations may be measured efficiently on a quantum information processor, and analyze the conditions under which this indicator is a reliable probe of quantum chaos and related statistical properties of the unperturbed system. The type and rate of the decay are not dependent on the eigenvalue statistics of the unperturbed system, but depend on the system's eigenvector statistics in the eigenbasis of the perturbation operator. For random eigenvector statistics the decay is exponential with a rate fixed precisely by the variance of the perturbation's energy spectrum. Hence, even classically regular models can exhibit an exponential fidelity decay under generic quantum perturbations. These results clarify which perturbations can distinguish classically regular and chaotic quantum systems.

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