Classical Decays in Decoherent Quantum Maps

I. GARCÍA-MATA; M.E. SPINA; M. SARACENO

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Año: 2003 vol. 91 p. 64101 - 64105

0031-9007

The linear entropy and the Loschmidt echo have proved to be of interest recently in the context of quantum information and of the quantum to classical transitions. We study the asymptotic long-time behavior of these quantities for open quantum maps and relate the decays to the eigenvalues of a coarse-grained superoperator. In specific ranges of coarse graining, and for chaotic maps, these decay rates are given by the Ruelle-Pollicott resonances of the classical map.