Complex Periodic Orbits and Tunneling in Chaotic Potentials

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.77.4975MaRDI QIDQ4492348zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Stephen C. Creagh, Niall D. Whelan

Publication date 16 July 2000

Published in Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9608002

zbMATH Keywords

chaotic potentialsisolated symmetric wellssplitting-weighted density of statestrace formulatunneling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Quantum chaos (81Q50)

Abstract: We derive a trace formula for the splitting-weighted density of states suitable for chaotic potentials with isolated symmetric wells. This formula is based on complex orbits which tunnel through classically forbidden barriers. The theory is applicable whenever the tunnelling is dominated by isolated orbits, a situation which applies to chaotic systems but also to certain near-integrable ones. It is used to analyse a specific two-dimensional potential with chaotic dynamics. Mean behaviour of the splittings is predicted by an orbit with imaginary action. Oscillations around this mean are obtained from a collection of related orbits whose actions have nonzero real part.

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