Periodic orbits, breaktime and localization

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/31/1/025MaRDI QIDQ4486387zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Doron Cohen

Publication date 30 November 2003

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/9612014

zbMATH Keywords

dualitylocalizationperiodic orbit theoryquantal spectrumquantum chaossemiclassical trace formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Functional analytic techniques in dynamical systems; zeta functions, (Ruelle-Frobenius) transfer operators, etc. (37C30) Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Quantum chaos (81Q50)

Abstract: The main goal of the present paper is to convince that it is feasible to construct a `periodic orbit theory' of localization by extending the idea of classical action correlations. This possibility had been questioned by many researchers in the field of `Quantum Chaos'. Starting from the semiclassical trace formula, we formulate a quantal-classical duality relation that connects the spectral properties of the quantal spectrum to the statistical properties of lengths of periodic orbits. By identifying the classical correlation scale it is possible to extend the semiclassical theory of spectral statistics, in case of a complex systems, beyond the limitations that are implied by the diagonal approximation. We discuss the quantal dynamics of a particle in a disordered system. The various regimes are defined in terms of time-disorder `phase diagram'. As expected, the breaktime may be `disorder limited' rather than `volume limited', leading to localization if it is shorter than the ergodic time. Qualitative agreement with scaling theory of localization in one to three dimensions is demonstrated.

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