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Quantum Chaos


Quantum chaos is the study of the implications of chaos for a system in the semiclassical (i.e., between classical and quantum mechanical) regime.

In quantum chaos, trajectories do not diverge exponentially because they are constrained by the fact that the entire evolution must be unitary.


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Chaos

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References

Ott, E. "Quantum Chaos." Ch. 10 in Chaos in Dynamical Systems. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 334-362, 1993.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Quantum Chaos." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/QuantumChaos.html

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