The Quantm to Classical Transition Kurt Jacobs

A review of the main ideas is given in

The Emergence of Classical Dynamics in a Quantum World 
T. Bhattacharya, S. Habib and K. Jacobs,
Los Alamos Science 27, 110 (2002) [pdf]

Publications :

  1. Comment on ‘‘Non-monotonicity in the Quantum-Classical Transition: Chaos Induced by Quantum Effects’’
    J. Finn, K. Jacobs and Bala Sundaram
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 119401 (2009) arXiv:0903.3417

  2. Conditions for the quantum-to-classical transition: Trajectories versus phase-space distributions
    B. Greenbaum, K. Jacobs and B. Sundaram  
    Phys. Rev. E 76, 036213 (2007) quant-ph/0701036

  3. Emergence of Chaos in Quantum Systems Far from the Classical Limit
    S. Habib, K. Jacobs and K. Shizume,
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 010403 (2006) quant_ph/0412159
     
  4. Recovering Classical Dynamics from Coupled Quantum Systems through Continuous Measurement 
    S. Ghose, P. Alsing, I. Deutsch, T. Bhattacharya, S. Habib and K. Jacobs,
    Phys. Rev. A 67, 052102 (2003) quant_ph/0208064
     
  5. Continuous Quantum Measurement and the Quantum to Classical Transition 
    T. Bhattacharya, S. Habib and K. Jacobs,
    Phys. Rev. A 67, 042103 (2003) quant_ph/0211036
     
  6. The Delta-Kicked Rotor: Momentum Diffusion and the Quantum-Classical Boundary 
    T. Bhattacharya, S. Habib, K. Jacobs and K. Shizume,
    Phys. Rev. A 65, 032115 (2002) quant_ph/0105086
     
  7. The quantum classical transition in non-linear dynamical systems 
    S. Habib, K. Jacobs, H. Mabuchi, R. Ryne, K. Shizume and B. Sundaram,
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 040402 (2002) quant_ph/0010093
     
  8. Continuous quantum measurement and the emergence of classical chaos 
    T. Bhattacharya, S. Habib and K. Jacobs,
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 4852-4855 (2000) quant_ph/9906092
     
  9. A scheme to probe the decoherence of a macroscopic object 
    S. Bose, K. Jacobs and P.L. Knight,
    Phys Rev. A 59, 3204-3210 (1999) quant_ph/9712017
     
Kurt Jacobs / Department of Physics / Umass Boston