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Consequences of the deviation from the linear on time quantum transition probabilities leading to the nonexponential decay law and to the so-called Zeno effect are analysed. Main features of the quantum Zeno and quantum anti-Zeno effects for induced transitions are revealed on simple model systems.
Prevention of a quantum system's time evolution by repetitive, frequent measurements of the system's state has been called the quantum Zeno effect (or paradox). Here we investigate theoretically and numerically the effect of repeated measurements on the quantum dynamics of the multilevel systems that exhibit the quantum localization of the classical chaos. The analysis is based on the wave function and Schroedinger equation, without introduction of the density matrix. We show how the quantum Zeno effect in simple few-level systems can be recovered and understood by formal modeling the measurement effect on the dynamics by randomizing the phases of the measured states. Further the similar analysis is extended to investigate of the dynamics of multilevel systems driven by an intense external force and affected by frequent measurement. We show that frequent measurements of such quantum systems results in the delocalization of the quantum suppression of the classical chaos. This result is the opposite of the quantum Zeno effect. The phenomenon of delocalization of the quantum suppression and restoration of the classical-like time evolution of these quasiclassical systems, owing to repetitive frequent measurements, can therefore be called the 'quantum anti-Zeno effect'. From this analysis we furthermore conclude that frequently or continuously observable quasiclassical systems evolve basically in a classical manner.
We investigate a transition from chaotic to nonchaotic behavior and synchronization in an ensemble of systems driven by identical random forces. We analyze the synchronization phenomenon in the ensemble of particles moving with friction in the time-dependent potential and driven by the identical noise. We define the threshold values of the parameters for transition from chaotic to nonchaotic behavior and investigate dependencies of the Lyapunov exponents and power spectral density on the nonlinearity of the systems and character of the driven force.
A consistent analytical approach for calculation of the quasiclassical radial dipole matrix elements in the momentum and coordinate representations is presented. Very simple but relatively precise expressions for the matrix elements are derived in both representations. All analytical expressions contain only one special function -- the Anger function and its derivative. They generalise and increase the accuracy of some known quasiclassical expressions. The small difference between the two forms of the expressions for the dipole matrix elements indicates to the applicability of the simple expressions given by the consistent quasiclassical approach even for low atomic states.
The quantum-classical correspondence for dynamics of the nonlinear classically chaotic systems is analysed. The problem of quantum chaos consists of two parts: the quasiclassical quantisation of the chaotic systems and attempts to understand the classical chaos in terms of quantum mechanics. The first question has been partially solved by the Gutzwiller semiclassical trace formula for the eigenvalues of chaotic systems, while the classical chaos may be derived from quantum equations only introducing the decoherence process due to interaction with system's environment or intermediate frequent measurement. We may conclude that continuously observable quasiclassical system evolves essentially classically-like.
The effect of repetitive measurement for quantum dynamics of driven by an intensive external force of the simple few-level systems as well as of the multilevel systems that exhibit the quantum localisation of classical chaos is investigated. Frequent measurement of the simple system yields to the quantum Zeno effect while that of the suppressed quantum system, which classical counterpart exhibits chaos, results in the delocalisation of the quantum suppression. From the analysis we may conclude that continuously observable quasiclassical system evolves essentially classically-like.
A theoretical and numerical analysis of the transition from chaotic to nonchaotic behavior in an ensemble of particles with different initial conditions which move according to Newton's equations in a bounding potential and are driven by an identical sequence of random forces (see S. Fahy and D. R. Hamann, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 69}, 761 (1992)) is presented. The threshold values of the parameters for transition from chaotic to nonchaotic behavior are defined on the basis of the map for distances between the particles and differences of velocity. Numerical analysis is fulfilled for one-dimensional Duffing $V(x)=x^4-x^2$ and $V(x)=x^4$ potentials.
A simple theory of the Rydberg atoms ionisation by electromagnetic pulses and microwave field is presented. The analysis is based on the scale transformation which reduces the number of parameters and reveals the functional dependencies of the processes. It is shown that the observed ionisation of Rydberg atoms by subpicosecond electromagnetic pulses scale classically. The threshold electric field required to ionise a Rydberg state may be simply evaluated in the photonic basis approach for the quantum dynamics or from the multiphoton ionisation theory.
We investigate the effect of repeated measurement for quantum dynamics of the suppressed systems which classical counterparts exhibit chaos. The essential feature of such systems is the quantum localization phenomena strongly limiting motion in the energy space. Repeated frequent measurement of suppressed systems results to the delocalization. Time evolution of the observed chaotic systems becomes close to the classical frequently broken diffusion-like process described by rate equations for the probabilities rather than for amplitudes.
We investigate a microwave ionization of highly excited atom in a low frequency field and show that such a process may be studied on the bases of map for the electron energy change during the period of the electron motion between two subsequent passages at aphelion. Simple approximate criterion results to the threshold field for transition to chaotic behavior very close to the numerical results. We show that transition from adiabatic to chaotic ionization mechanism takes place when the field frequency to the electron's Kepler frequency ration approximately equals 0.1.