Hybrid quantum-classical chaotic NEMS

Abstract

We present an exactly solvable model of a hybrid quantum-classical system of a Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) center spin (quantum spin) coupled with a nanocantilever (classical) and analyze the enforcement of the regular or chaotic classical dynamics onto to the quantum spin dynamics. The main problem we focus in this paper is whether the classical dynamical chaos may induce chaotic quantum effects in the spin dynamics. We explore several characteristic criteria of the quantum chaos, such as quantum Poincar\'e recurrences, generation of coherence and energy level distribution and observe interesting chaotic effects in the spin dynamics. Dynamical chaos imposed in the cantilever dynamics through the kicking pulses induces the stochastic dynamics of the quantum subsystem. However, we show that this type of stochasticity does not possess all the characteristic features of the quantum chaos and is distinct from it. The phenomenon of the hybrid quantum-classical chaos leads to dynamical freezing of the NV spin.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figure