| Issue |
EPL
Volume 81, Number 5, March 2008
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| Article Number | 50003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/81/50003 | |
| Published online | 11 February 2008 | |
Chaos attracts tunneling trajectories: A universal mechanism of chaotic tunneling
1
Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University - Minami-Ohsawa, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan
2
Department of Mathematics, Kyushu University - Ropponmatsu, Fukuoka 810-8560, Japan
3
Department of Physics, Ritsumeikan University - Noji-higashi 1-1-1, Kusatsu 525-8577, Japan
Received:
31
October
2007
Accepted:
8
January
2008
It is shown that stable and unstable manifolds in the complex plane control dynamical tunneling in mixed systems. Some hypotheses based upon numerical observations combined with recent results in the theory of complex dynamical systems (Bedford and Smillie 1991, 1992) reveal that the stable manifolds in complex space are densely distributed in the set of tunneling orbits which asymptotically contribute to the semiclassical propagator. It is indeed verified that the tunneling amplitude out of the KAM region is well reproduced by the orbits attracted by unstable periodic orbits in the real phase space.
PACS: 05.45.Mt – Quantum chaos: semiclassical methods / 03.65.Sq – Semiclassical theories and applications / 05.45.-a – Nonlinear dynamics and chaos
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