Quantum Transport through Partial Barriers in Higher-Dimensional Systems

Phys Rev Lett. 2024 Jan 26;132(4):047201. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.047201.

Abstract

Partial transport barriers in the chaotic sea of Hamiltonian systems influence classical transport, as they allow for a small flux between chaotic phase-space regions only. We find for higher-dimensional systems that quantum transport through such a partial barrier is more restrictive than expected from two-dimensional maps. We establish a universal transition from quantum suppression to mimicking classical transport. The scaling parameter involves the flux, the size of a Planck cell, and the localization length due to dynamical localization along a resonance channel. This is numerically demonstrated for coupled kicked rotors with a partial barrier that generalizes a cantorus to higher dimensions.