[en] We study the possibility of chaos for the Bohmian dynamics when the wave function is stationary. Examples of stationary wave functions are given for which there is chaos, as demonstrated by numerical computations, for one particle moving in 3 spatial dimensions and for two and three entangled particles in 2 dimensions. What is important for the amount of chaos is the overall complexity of the wave function. Some simple measures that partly capture the complexity of the wave function are considered: the participation ratio and different measures of entanglement. We find that these measures often tend to correlate to the amount of chaos. However, the correlation is not perfect, because the measures do not depend on the intrinsic complexity of the states of a given basis.
Disciplines :
Physics
Author, co-author :
Cesa, Alexandre ; Université de Liège > Département de physique > Optique quantique
Martin, John ; Université de Liège > Département de physique > Optique quantique
Struyve, Ward; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München - LMU > Mathematisches Institut
Language :
English
Title :
Chaotic Bohmian trajectories for stationary states
Publication date :
18 May 2016
Number of pages :
A0
Event name :
General Scientific Meeting 2016 of the Belgian Physical Society
Event organizer :
Belgian Physical Society
Event place :
Gent, Belgium
Event date :
18 mai 2016
Tags :
CÉCI : Consortium des Équipements de Calcul Intensif