Localization of eigenstates and mean Wehrl entropy
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چکیده
Dynamics of a periodically time-dependent quantum system is re ected in the features of the eigenstates of the Floquet operator. Of the special importance, are their localization properties quantitatively characterized by the eigenvector entropy, the inverse participation ratio or the eigenvector statistics. Since these quantities depend on the choice of the eigenbasis, we suggest to use the overcomplete basis of coherent states, uniquely determined by the classical phase space. In this way, we de ne the mean Wehrl entropy of eigenvectors of the Floquet operator and demonstrate that this quantity is useful to describe the quantum chaotic systems. ? 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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