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Quantum Arnol'd Diffusion in a Simple Nonlinear System
We study the fingerprint of the Arnol'd diffusion in a quantum system of two
coupled nonlinear oscillators with a two-frequency external force. In the
classical description, this peculiar diffusion is due to the onset of a weak
chaos in a narrow stochastic layer near the separatrix of the coupling
resonance. We have found that global dependence of the quantum diffusion
coefficient on model parameters mimics, to some extent, the classical data.
However, the quantum diffusion happens to be slower that the classical one.
Another result is the dynamical localization that leads to a saturation of the
diffusion after some characteristic time. We show that this effect has the same
nature as for the studied earlier dynamical localization in the presence of
global chaos. The quantum Arnol'd diffusion represents a new type of quantum
dynamics and can be observed, for example, in 2D semiconductor structures
(quantum billiards) perturbed by time-periodic external fields.Comment: RevTex, 11 pages including 12 ps-figure