Phys. Rev. A 44, 4133–4141 (1991)States of a dynamically driven spin. II. Classical model and the quantum-to-classical limitReceived 20 May 1991; published in the issue dated October 1991 A classical spin, dynamically driven by a polarized beam, is shown to exhibit a complex variety of behaviors, incuding stable fixed points, bifurcations, limit cycles, and chaos. In the classical (large-spin) limit of the corresponding quantum model, the probability distributions for the spin components converge to their classical counterparts, even though the classical motions are qualitatively different for different ranges of parameters. However, the nature of the quantum-to-classical limit has some unexpected features, which are discussed. © 1991 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.44.4133
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.44.4133
PACS:
05.45.+b, 03.20.+i, 03.65.-w
See AlsoSee Also: L. E. Ballentine, States of a dynamically driven spin. I. Quantum-mechanical model, Phys. Rev. A 44, 4126 (1991). |
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