{"id":96312,"date":"2019-09-16T13:03:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T20:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/viewpoint-surfing-on-a-wave-of-quantum-chaos"},"modified":"2019-09-16T13:03:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T20:03:49","slug":"viewpoint-surfing-on-a-wave-of-quantum-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/viewpoint-surfing-on-a-wave-of-quantum-chaos","title":{"rendered":"Viewpoint: Surfing on a Wave of Quantum Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/viewpoint-surfing-on-a-wave-of-quantum-chaos.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A model based on Brownian motion describes the tsunami-like propagation of chaotic behavior in a system of quantum particles.<\/p>\n<p>\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>In daily life, \u201cchaos\u201d describes anything messy. In physics, the term has a more specific meaning: It refers to systems that, while subject to deterministic laws, are totally unpredictable because of an exponential sensitivity to initial conditions\u2014think of the butterfly flapping its wings and causing a distant tornado. But how does the chaos observed in the classical, macroscopic world emerge from the quantum-mechanical laws that govern the microscopic world? A recently proposed explanation invokes quantum \u201cinformation scrambling\u201d [1, 3], in which information gets rapidly dispersed into quantum correlations among the particles of a system. This scrambling is a memory-loss mechanism that can cause the unpredictability of chaos. Developing a theory that fully describes information scrambling remains, however, a daunting task.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A model based on Brownian motion describes the tsunami-like propagation of chaotic behavior in a system of quantum particles. \u00d7 In daily life, \u201cchaos\u201d describes anything messy. In physics, the term has a more specific meaning: It refers to systems that, while subject to deterministic laws, are totally unpredictable because of an exponential sensitivity to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}