Publications by authors named "G Contopoulos"

We study the role of unstable points in the Bohmian flow of a 2d system composed of two non-interacting harmonic oscillators. In particular, we study the unstable points in the inertial frame of reference as well as in the frame of reference of the moving nodal points, in cases with 1, 2 and multiple nodal points. Then, we find the contributions of the ordered and chaotic trajectories in the Born distribution, and when the latter is accessible by an initial particle distribution which does not satisfy Born's rule.

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We study in detail the interplay between chaos and entanglement in the Bohmian trajectories of three entangled qubits, made of coherent states of the quantum harmonic oscillator. We find that all the three-dimensional (3D) chaotic trajectories are ergodic; namely, they have a common long time distribution of points regardless of the initial conditions, and for any nonzero entanglement, their number is much larger than in the corresponding two-qubit system. Furthermore, the range of entanglements for which practically all the trajectories are chaotic and ergodic is much larger than in the two-qubit case.

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We study the Bohmian trajectories of a generic entangled two-qubit system, composed of coherent states of two harmonic oscillators with noncommensurable frequencies and focus on the relation between ergodicity and the dynamical approach to Born's rule for arbitrary distributions of initial conditions. We find that most Bohmian trajectories are ergodic and establish the same invariant ergodic limiting distributions of their points for any nonzero amount of entanglement. In the case of strong entanglement the distribution satisfying Born's rule is dominated by chaotic-ergodic trajectories.

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We study and compare three characteristic times of the standard map: the Lyapunov time t_{L}, the Poincaré recurrence time t_{r}, and the stickiness (or escape) time t_{st}. The Lyapunov time is the inverse of the Lyapunov characteristic number (L) and in general is quite small. We find empirical relations for the L as a function of the nonlinearity parameter K and of the chaotic area A.

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We provide a general theory for the structure of the quantum flow near three-dimensional (3D) nodal lines, i.e., one-dimensional loci where the 3D wave function becomes equal to zero.

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