Hyperbolic scar patterns in phase space

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/15/3/309zbMATH Open1073.81579arXivnlin/0104068OpenAlexW1991457597MaRDI QIDQ3147371FDOQ3147371

Authors: Alejandro M. F. Rivas, A. M. Ozorio De Almeida 

Publication date: 2002

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We develop a semiclassical approximation for the spectral Wigner and Husimi functions in the neighbourhood of a classically unstable periodic orbit of chaotic two dimensional maps. The prediction of hyperbolic fringes for the Wigner function, asymptotic to the stable and unstable manifolds, is verified computationally for a (linear) cat map, after the theory is adapted to a discrete phase space appropriate to a quantized torus. The characteristic fringe patterns can be distinguished even for quasi-energies where the fixed point is not Bohr-quantized. The corresponding Husimi function dampens these fringes with a Gaussian envelope centered on the periodic point. Even though the hyperbolic structure is then barely perceptible, more periodic points stand out due to the weakened interference.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0104068

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems with hyperbolic orbits and sets (37D05) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Quantum chaos (81Q50)

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