Directed transport in classical and quantum chaotic billiards

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/42/4/045102zbMATH Open1156.81394arXiv0808.1313OpenAlexW2020863313MaRDI QIDQ3600535FDOQ3600535

Publication date: 10 February 2009

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

Abstract: We construct an autonomous chaotic Hamiltonian ratchet as a channel billiard subdivided by equidistant walls attached perpendicularly to one side of the channel, leaving an opening on the opposite side. A static homogeneous magnetic field penetrating the billiard breaks time-reversal invariance and renders the classical motion partially chaotic. We show that the classical dynamics exhibits directed transport, owing to the asymmetric distribution of regular regions in phase space. The billiard is quantized by a numerical method based on a finite-element algorithm combined with the Landau gauge and the Bloch formalism for periodic potentials. We discuss features of the billiard eigenstates such as node lines and vortices in the probability flow. Evidence for directed quantum transport, inherited from the corresponding features of the classical dynamics, is presented in terms of level-velocity statistics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.1313

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Transition to stochasticity (chaotic behavior) for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K55) Quantum chaos (81Q50)

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