The analysis of diffusive energy spreading in quantized chaotic driven
systems, leads to a universal paradigm for the emergence of a quantum anomaly.
In the classical approximation a driven chaotic system exhibits stochastic-like
diffusion in energy space with a coefficient D that is proportional to the
intensity ϵ2 of the driving. In the corresponding quantized problem
the coherent transitions are characterized by a generalized Wigner time
tϵ, and a self-generated (intrinsic) dephasing process leads to
non-linear dependence of D on ϵ2.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures, textual improvements (as in published version