Crystal properties of eigenstates for quantum cat maps

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/10/6/008zbMATH Open0908.58025arXivchao-dyn/9701019OpenAlexW2070750860MaRDI QIDQ3841230FDOQ3841230

Stéphane Nonnenmacher

Publication date: 16 August 1998

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Using the Bargmann-Husimi representation of quantum mechanics on a torus phase space, we study analytically eigenstates of quantized cat maps. The linearity of these maps implies a close relationship between classically invariant sublattices on the one hand, and the patterns (or `constellations') of Husimi zeros of certain quantum eigenstates on the other hand. For these states, the zero patterns are crystals on the torus. As a consequence, we can compute explicit families of eigenstates for which the zero patterns become uniformly distributed on the torus phase space in the limit $hbaro0$. This result constitutes a first rigorous example of semi-classical equidistribution for Husimi zeros of eigenstates in quantized one-dimensional chaotic systems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9701019

zbMATH Keywords

quantum mechanicsquantized cat mapseigenstatestorus phase spaceBargmann-Husimi representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Geometric quantization (53D50) Quantum chaos (81Q50)

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