Importance of the Wick rotation on Tunnelling

dc.creatorMouchet, Amaury
dc.date2007-02-01
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:44:17Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T07:44:17Z
dc.descriptionA continuous complex rotation of time $t\mapsto t\EXP{-iθ}$ is shown to smooth out the huge fluctuations that characterise chaotic tunnelling. This is illustrated in the kicked rotor model (quantum standard map) where the period of the map is complexified: the associated chaotic classical dynamics, if significant for $θ=0$, is blurred out long before the Wick rotation is completed ($θ=π/2$). The influence of resonances on tunnelling rates weakens exponentially as $θ$ increases from zero, all the more rapidly the sharper the fluctuations. The long range fluctuations can therefore be identified in a deterministic way without ambiguity. When the last ones have been washed out, tunnelling recovers the (quasi-)integrable exponential behaviour governed by the action of a regular instanton.
dc.description4 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0702003
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0702003
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/123146
dc.subjectChaotic Dynamics
dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.titleImportance of the Wick rotation on Tunnelling
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