Quantum Signatures of Strange Attractors

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01416v2
• Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2025 11:09:54 GMT
• Title: Quantum Signatures of Strange Attractors
• Authors: Bence Dárdai, Gábor Vattay,
• Abstract summary: In classical mechanics, driven systems with dissipation often exhibit complex, fractal dynamics known as strange attractors.<n>This paper addresses the fundamental question of how such structures manifest in the quantum realm.<n>By employing the Husimi distribution to represent the quantum state in phase space, we present the first visualization of a quantum strange attractor within this model.
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• Abstract: In classical mechanics, driven systems with dissipation often exhibit complex, fractal dynamics known as strange attractors. This paper addresses the fundamental question of how such structures manifest in the quantum realm. We investigate the quantum Duffing oscillator, a paradigmatic chaotic system, using the Caldirola-Kanai (CK) framework, where dissipation is integrated directly into a time-dependent Hamiltonian. By employing the Husimi distribution to represent the quantum state in phase space, we present the first visualization of a quantum strange attractor within this model. Our simulations demonstrate how an initially simple Gaussian wave packet is stretched, folded, and sculpted by the interplay of chaotic dynamics and energy loss, causing it to localize onto a structure that beautifully mirrors the classical attractor. This quantum "photograph" is inherently smoothed, blurring the infinitely fine fractal details of its classical counterpart as a direct consequence of the uncertainty principle. We supplement this analysis by examining the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC), which shows that stronger dissipation clarifies the exponential growth associated with the classical Lyapunov exponent, thereby confirming the model's semiclassical behavior. This work offers a compelling geometric perspective on open chaotic quantum systems and sheds new light on the quantum-classical transition.

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