Chaos from quantum bath fluctuations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18340v1
• Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:00:01 GMT
• Title: Chaos from quantum bath fluctuations
• Abstract summary: We show that quantum noise can generate a strange attractor with fractal dimension and a positive Lyapunov exponent.<n>We unveil the deep connection with shear-induced chaos that was recently developed in the mathematical community.
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• Abstract: The effect of a large environment on a finite-size quantum mechanical system is two-fold: It brings dissipation, but also fluctuations of thermal and quantum origin. While dissipation tends to stabilize the dynamics, we question if and how environmental quantum fluctuations can generate chaos in an otherwise classically non-chaotic system. We work out a paradigmatic model of quantum optics: the dissipative Dicke model, where a large spin interacts with a dissipative harmonic mode. We dial in the classical/quantum correspondence by working in the semiclassical regime at large but finite spin. We demonstrate that, starting from a classically regular phase space in the superradiant regime, quantum noise can generate a strange attractor with fractal dimension and a positive Lyapunov exponent. We unveil the deep connection with shear-induced chaos that was recently developed in the mathematical community.

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