Sensitivity to measurement perturbation of single atom dynamics in cavity QED
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We consider continuous observation of the nonlinear dynamics of an atom trapped in an optical cavity by a standing wave with intensity modulation. The motion of the atom changes the phase of the field which is then monitored by homodyne detection of the output field. We show that the conditional Hilbert space dynamics of this system, subject to measurement induced perturbations, depends strongly on whether the corresponding classical dynamics is regular or chaotic. If the classical dynamics is chaotic the distribution of conditional Hilbert space vectors corresponding to different observation records tend to be orthogonal. This is a characteristic feature of hypersensitivity to perturbation for quantum chaotic systems. Typeset using REVTEX 1
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