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Decoherence and the rate of entropy production in chaotic quantum systems

Diana Monteoliva, Juan Pablo Paz

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0007052

Abstract

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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