Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 170405 (2002) [4 pages]Quantum Chaotic Environments, the Butterfly Effect, and DecoherenceReceived 31 October 2001; published 8 October 2002 We investigate the sensitivity of quantum systems that are chaotic in a classical limit to small perturbations of their equations of motion. This sensitivity, originally studied in the context of defining quantum chaos, is relevant to decoherence when the environment has a chaotic classical counterpart. © 2002 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.170405
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.170405
PACS:
03.65.Yz, 05.45.Mt
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