Decoherence and the Correspondence Principle for Chaotic Systems

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  • Wojciech Hubert Zurek
  • Juan Pablo Paz
چکیده

Violation of correspondence principle may occur for very macroscopic but isolated quantum systems on rather short timescales as illustrated by the case of Hyperion, the chaotically tumbling moon of Saturn, for which quantum and classical predictions are expected to diverge on a timescale of approximately 20 years. Motivated by Hyperion, we review salient features of “quantum chaos” and show that decoherence is the essential ingredient of the classical limit, as it enables one to solve the apparent paradox caused by the breakdown of the correspondence principle for classically chaotic systems.

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تاریخ انتشار 1997