Published October 4, 1993 | Version v1
Journal article

Partial dynamical symmetry and the suppression of chaos

  • 1. Center for Theoretical Physics, Sloane Physics Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511 (United States)
  • 2. Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904 (Israel)

Description

Partial dynamical symmetry is a situation in which the Hamiltonian does not have a certain symmetry yet a subset of its eigenstates does. It is shown that partial dynamical symmetry may cause suppression of chaos even in cases where the fraction of states which has the symmetry vanishes in the classical limit. The average entropy associated with the symmetry is a sensitive quantum measure of the partial symmetry and its effect on the chaotic dynamics

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
71
Journal Issue
14
Journal Page Range
p. 2208-2211.
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO