On the accuracy of the semiclassical trace formula

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/31/29/016MaRDI QIDQ4213090zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Harel Primack, Uzy Smilansky

Publication date 18 March 1999

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/9801025

zbMATH Keywords

semiclassical approximationquantum chaossemiclassical trace formulaSinai billardspectrum of quantum systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ergodic theorems, spectral theory, Markov operators (37A30) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Quantum chaos (81Q50) Ergodic theory (37A99)

Abstract: The semiclassical trace formula provides the basic construction from which one derives the semiclassical approximation for the spectrum of quantum systems which are chaotic in the classical limit. When the dimensionality of the system increases, the mean level spacing decreases as $hba{r}^d$, while the semiclassical approximation is commonly believed to provide an accuracy of order $hba{r}^2$, independently of d. If this were true, the semiclassical trace formula would be limited to systems in d <= 2 only. In the present work we set about to define proper measures of the semiclassical spectral accuracy, and to propose theoretical and numerical evidence to the effect that the semiclassical accuracy, measured in units of the mean level spacing, depends only weakly (if at all) on the dimensionality. Detailed and thorough numerical tests were performed for the Sinai billiard in 2 and 3 dimensions, substantiating the theoretical arguments.

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