Scarring on invariant manifolds for perturbed quantized hyperbolic toral automorphisms (Q2471775): Difference between revisions

A significant problem in quantum chaos is to understand the behavior of eigenstates of classically chaotic systems in the semiclassical limit, in particular, to classify the possible measures on phase space obtained as a quantum limit. For quantized linear symplectic maps of higher dimensional tori, if the classical map leaves no invariant rational isotropic subspaces, the only limiting measure (after taking the arithmetic symmetries into account) is again the volume measure on the whole torus. However, if there are rational isotropic invariant subspaces, then there are sequences of quantum states localized on corresponding co-isotropic invariant manifolds. Furthermore, this phenomenon is stable under the arithmetic symmetries of the system. In the reviewed article it is shown that this localization is also stable under certain nonlinear perturbations, which preserve these co-isotropic manifolds.