On the convergence to ergodic behaviour of quantum wavefunctions

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/30/9/011MaRDI QIDQ4232172zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Philippe Jacquod, Jean-Pierre Amiet

Publication date 2 August 1999

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9610014

zbMATH Keywords

random matrix theoryfluctuationschaotic regimequantum mechanical wavefunctionsspin (SU(2))

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Other physical applications of random processes (60K40)

Abstract: We study the decrease of fluctuations of diagonal matrix elements of observables and of Husimi densities of quantum mechanical wave functions around their mean value upon approaching the semi-classical regime ($hbarightarrow0$). The model studied is a spin (SU(2)) one in a classically strongly chaotic regime. We show that the fluctuations are Gaussian distributed, with a width $sigm{a}^2$ decreasing as the square root of Planck's constant. This is consistent with Random Matrix Theory (RMT) predictions, and previous studies on these fluctuations. We further study the width of the probability distribution of $hbar$-dependent fluctuations and compare it to the Gaussian Orthogonal Ensemble (GOE) of RMT.

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