Semiclassical study on tunneling processes via complex-domain chaos

Abstract

We investigate the semiclassical mechanism of tunneling processes in nonintegrable systems. The significant role of complex-phase-space chaos in the description of the tunneling processes is elucidated by studying a kicked scattering model. Behaviors of tunneling orbits are encoded into symbolic sequences based on the structure of a complex homoclinic tangle. By means of the symbolic coding, the phase space itineraries of tunneling orbits are related with the amounts of imaginary parts of actions gained by the orbits, so that the systematic search of dominant tunneling orbits becomes possible.