Dynamical Tunneling in Many-Dimensional Chaotic Systems

Abstract: We investigate dynamical tunneling in many dimensional systems using a quasi-periodically modulated kicked rotor, and find that the tunneling rate from the torus to the chaotic region is drastically enhanced when the chaotic states become delocalized as a result of the Anderson transition. This result strongly suggests that amphibious states, which were discovered for a one-dimensional kicked rotor with transporting islands [L. Hufnagel et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 154101 (2002)], quite commonly appear in many dimensional systems.