Loschmidt-echo decay from local boundary perturbations

Arseni Goussev*, Klaus Richter

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Abstract

We investigate the sensitivity of the time evolution of semiclassical wave packets in two-dimensional chaotic billiards with respect to local perturbations of their boundaries. For this purpose, we address, analytically and numerically, the time decay of the Loschmidt echo (LE). We find the LE to decay exponentially in time, with the rate equal to the classical escape rate from an open billiard obtained from the original one by removing the perturbation-affected region of its boundary. Finally, we propose a principal scheme for the experimental observation of the LE decay.

Original languageEnglish
Article number015201(R)
JournalPhysical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
Volume75
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 9 Jan 2007

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