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Yong Hong Ma1, Xing Wang Hou1, Rong Zhao1
1School of Science, Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology, Baotou 014010, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
The dynamics of chaos in quantum systems has attracted much interest in connection with the fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics. We study the chaotic dynamics of both the excitonic mode and the cavity mode in a microcavity containing a quantum well driven by an external field. We investigate how the chaotic dynamics is influenced by the frequencies of the exciton and the cavity, the coupling constant between the exciton and cavity, the Coulomb interaction between excitons, and the response of the exciton to the cavity and the external field. We show that chaos can be generated synchronously in both the cavity and the excitonic mode by choosing appropriate parameters. Moreover, this kind of chaos can be controlled by the coupling constant, the strength of the interaction between excitons, the external field, the response of the excitons to the cavity, and the detuning between the cavity field and the excitonic field. The present study may have applications in chaos-based neural networks and extreme event statistics.
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