Chaos in Optomechanical Systems coupled to a Non-Markovian environment

TL;DR

This paper investigates how non-Markovian environments influence chaos in semi-classical optomechanical systems, revealing that environmental memory effects can significantly enhance chaotic behavior and impact quantum control strategies.

Contribution

It demonstrates the role of non-Markovian environmental memory in modulating chaos in optomechanical systems, a novel insight into quantum environment interactions.

Findings

Non-Markovian environments can enhance chaos in optomechanical systems.

Memory effects modify the emergence and characteristics of chaos.

Crossover from Markovian to non-Markovian regimes affects chaotic dynamics.

Abstract

We study the chaotic motion of a semi-classical optomechanical system coupled to a non-Markovian environment with a finite correlation time. We show that the non-Markovian environment can significantly enhance chaos, by studying the emergence of chaos using Lyapunov exponent with the changing non-Markovian parameter. It is observed that non-Markovian environment characterized by the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck type noise can modify the generation of chaos with different environmental memory times. As a comparison, the crossover properties from Markov to non-Markovian regimes are also discussed. Our findings indicate that the quantum memory effects on the onset of chaos may become a useful property to be investigated in quantum manipulations and control.