Bistability and chaos-assisted tunneling in dissipative quantum systems.

We revisit the problem of quantum bi- and multistability by considering the dissipative double resonance model. For a large driving frequency, this system has a simpler phase structure than the driven dissipative nonlinear oscillator, the paradigm model for classical and quantum bistability. This allows us to obtain an analytical estimate for the lifetime of quantum limit cycles. On the other hand, for a small driving frequency, the system is much richer than the nonlinear oscillator. This allows us to address a novel phenomenon of dissipation- and chaos-assisted tunneling between quantum limits cycles.