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| Author(s): |
Milton Alexandre da Silva Junior
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física (IF/SBI) |
| Defense date: | 2010-03-02 |
| Examining board members: |
Antonio Fernando Ribeiro de Toledo Piza;
Ibere Luiz Caldas;
Kyoko Furuya;
Diógenes Galetti;
Mahir Saleh Hussein
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| Advisor: | Antonio Fernando Ribeiro de Toledo Piza |
| Abstract | |
In this thesis, we studied the behavior of quantum systems which in the classical limit may exhibit either regular or chaotic behavior. Our study was based on the dynamical characterization of the, chaotic or regular, behavior of these systems in the classical limit through the analysis of the structure of phase-space distributions functions. Particularly, we have applied this characterization tools to the study of the quantum-to-classical transition in a class quantum systems, that we called generally as systems with collective propensity, which have the important property of admitting, in a certain limit analogous to the thermodynamical limit, a description of their dynamics in terms of a low number of variables of collective nature. This property allows us to describe the dynamics of very complicated systems in terms of the dynamics of systems with few degrees of freedom. Besides, this allows us to study the classical limit of these systems concomitantly with the thermodynamical limit, avoiding in this way to deal with formal procedures associated with the limit h 0. Differently from the usual approaches, the one we employ in this thesis, based on the systemscollective propensity, allows for an implementation of a description in terms of the behavior of phase-space distribution functions for systems endowed with a discrete spectrum in a finite-dimensional space. (AU) | |