Quantum ergodicity for a class of mixed systems (Q2450828)
From MaRDI portal
scientific article
Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
---|---|---|---|
English | Quantum ergodicity for a class of mixed systems |
scientific article |
Statements
Quantum ergodicity for a class of mixed systems (English)
0 references
21 May 2014
0 references
Summary: We examine high energy eigenfunctions for the Dirichlet Laplacian on domains where the billiard flow exhibits mixed dynamical behavior. (More generally, we consider semiclassical Schrödinger operators with mixed assumptions on the Hamiltonian flow.) Specifically, we assume that the billiard flow has an invariant ergodic component, \(U\), and study defect measures, \(\mu\), of positive density subsequences of eigenfunctions (and, more generally, of almost orthogonal quasimodes). We show that any defect measure associated to such a subsequence satisfies \(\mu|_{U}=c\mu_L|_{U}\), where \(\mu_L\) is the Liouville measure. This proves part of a conjecture of \textit{C. Percival} [``Regular and irregular spectra'', J. Phys. B At. Mol. Phys. 6, No. 9, 229--232 (1973; \url{doi:10.1088/0022-3700/6/9/002})].
0 references
quantum ergodicity
0 references
mixed dynamics
0 references
semiclassical
0 references
0 references
0 references
0 references
0 references
0 references