From Quantum Chaos to Classical Chaos via Gain-Induced Measurement Dynamics in a Photon Gas

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07045v1
• Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2025 23:44:56 GMT
• Title: From Quantum Chaos to Classical Chaos via Gain-Induced Measurement Dynamics in a Photon Gas
• Authors: Violetta Sharoglazova, Marius Puplauskis, Lotte Hof, Jan Klaers,
• Abstract summary: How classical chaos emerges from quantum mechanics remains a central open question.<n>A key insight is that this quantum-classical link is provided by measurement processes.<n>We show that this mechanism naturally gives rise to classical chaotic behavior.
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• Abstract: How classical chaos emerges from quantum mechanics remains a central open question, as the unitary evolution of isolated quantum systems forbids exponential sensitivity to initial conditions. A key insight is that this quantum-classical link is provided by measurement processes. In this work, we identify gain competition in a chaotic photon gas as an operational quantum measurement that selects single motional modes from an initial superposition through stochastic, nonlinear amplification. We show that this mechanism naturally gives rise to classical chaotic behavior, most notably sensitivity to initial conditions. Our results provide a concrete physical mechanism for the quantum-classical transition in a chaotic system and demonstrate that essential aspects of quantum measurement-state projection, Born-rule-like selection, and irreversibility-can naturally emerge from intrinsic gain dynamics.

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