CHANNEL-CHANNEL CORRELATION IN DISSIPATIVE HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS AND QUANTUM CHAOS IN THE INFINITE-TIME LIMIT

We suggest that the exit microchannel correlation indicates off-diagon al, long-range-order coherence and quantum chaos in dissipative heavy- ion collisions. Such a correlation is revealed in the non-self-averagi ng of the excitation function oscillations observed in dissipative hea vy-ion collisions. We also discuss the splitting of Hilbert space into an infinite number of orthogonal subspaces due to the spontaneous bre aking of rotational and inversion symmetries. This splining is a basic element in the statistical reaction with memory approach and it also gives rise to a continuous spectrum of a bound quantum many-body syste m indicating quantum chaos in the infinite-time limit.