Weak quantum ergodicity

DOI10.1016/S0167-2789(98)00156-0zbMATH Open0960.81024arXivchao-dyn/9810002OpenAlexW2055076398MaRDI QIDQ1808396FDOQ1808396

Authors: L. Kaplan, Eric J. Heller 

Publication date: 6 December 1999

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We examine the consequences of classical ergodicity for the localization properties of individual quantum eigenstates in the classical limit. We note that the well known Schnirelman result is a weaker form of quantum ergodicity than the one implied by random matrix theory. This suggests the possibility of systems with non-gaussian random eigenstates which are nonetheless ergodic in the sense of Schnirelman and lead to ergodic transport in the classical limit. These we call "weakly quantum ergodic. Indeed for a class of "slow ergodic" classical systems, it is found that each eigenstate becomes localized to an ever decreasing fraction of the available state space, in the semiclassical limit. Nevertheless, each eigenstate in this limit covers phase space evenly on any classical scale, and long-time transport properties betwen individual quantum states remain ergodic due to the diffractive effects which dominate quantum phase space exploration.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9810002

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zbMATH Keywords

random matrix theoryquantum ergodicityergodic transport

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Quantum chaos (81Q50)

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