Numerical study of quantum resonances in chaotic scattering (Q697677)

This paper shows that in quantum systems with chaotic classical dynamics, the number of scattering resonances near an energy \(E\) scales like \(\hbar^{-(D(K_E)+ 1)/2}\) as \(\hbar\to 0\), where \(K_E\) denotes the subset of the energy surface \(H=E\), which stays bounded for all time under the flow generated by the classical Hamiltonian \(H\) and \(D(K_E)\) denotes its fractal dimension. The argument is based on standard numerical techniques. The calculation uses a recursive refinement technique for estimating the dimension of fractal repellors in classical Hamiltonian scattering and ingredients from modern quantum chemistry and numerical linear algebra.