Quantum dissipative chaos in the statistics of excitation numbers

Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Mar 4;88(9):094101. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.094101. Epub 2002 Feb 13.

Abstract

A quantum manifestation of chaotic classical dynamics is found in the framework of oscillatory number statistics for the model of a nonlinear dissipative oscillator. It is shown that the probability distributions and variances of oscillatory number states are strongly transformed in the order-to-chaos transition. A nonclassical, sub-Poissonian statistics of oscillatory excitation numbers is established for chaotic dissipative dynamics in the framework of the Fano factor and Wigner functions. It is proposed to use these results in experimental studies of the quantum dissipative chaos.