Exact eigenfunction amplitude distributions of integrable quantum billiards

DOI10.1063/1.5006320MaRDI QIDQ3134116zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rhine Samajdar, Sudhir R. Jain

Publication date 8 February 2018

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.00403

zbMATH Keywords

Meijer G-function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of hypergeometric functions (33C90) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Quantum chaos (81Q50) Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12)

Abstract: The exact probability distributions of the amplitudes of eigenfunctions, $Psi(x,y)$, of several integrable planar billiards are analytically calculated and shown to possess singularities at $Psi=0$; the nature of this singularity is shape-dependent. In particular, we prove that the distribution function for a rectangular quantum billiard is proportional to the complete elliptic integral, $$, and demonstrate its universality, modulo a weak dependence on quantum numbers. On the other hand, we study the low-lying states of nonseparable, integrable triangular billiards and find the distributions thereof to be described by the Meijer G-function or certain hypergeometric functions. Our analysis captures a marked departure from the Gaussian distributions for chaotic billiards in its survey of the fluctuations of the eigenfunctions about $Psi=0$.

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