Published 1995 | Version v1
Journal article

Order and chaos described by a quadrupole boson Hamiltonian

  • 1. Department of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Institute of Atomic Physics, PO Box MG-6, R-76900 Bucharest, (Romania)

Description

A fourth order quadrupole boson Hamiltonian is semi-classically treated through a time dependent variational principle. The variational states are coherent functions for the boson operators b20+,1/√2(b22+ + b2-2+). The classical equations of motion are numerically solved. Under certain circumstances the classical trajectories have a chaotic character. The regular and chaotic orbits are pictorially presented by their intersections with Poincare section. The stability of classical orbits is also studied. For illustrative purposes the Lyapunov exponent for several orbits of both regular and chaotic type is computed. (author) 10 figs., 43 refs

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Romanian Journal of Physics
Journal Volume
40
Journal Issue
4-5
Journal Page Range
p. 433-451.
ISSN
1221-146X
CODEN
RJPHEC