Periodic orbit quantization of the Sinai billiard in the small scatterer limit

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/31/30/003zbMATH Open0961.81012arXivchao-dyn/9710012OpenAlexW2052610451MaRDI QIDQ4254313FDOQ4254313

Authors: Per Dahlqvist, Gábor Vattay 

Publication date: 29 June 1999

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

Abstract: We consider the semiclassical quantization of the Sinai billiard for disk radii R small compared to the wave length 2 pi/k. Via the application of the periodic orbit theory of diffraction we derive the semiclassical spectral determinant. The limitations of the derived determinant are studied by comparing it to the exact KKR determinant, which we generalize here for the A_1 subspace. With the help of the Ewald resummation method developed for the full KKR determinant we transfer the complex diffractive determinant to a real form. The real zeros of the determinant are the quantum eigenvalues in semiclassical approximation. The essential parameter is the strength of the scatterer c=J_0(kR)/Y_0(kR). Surprisingly, this can take any value between plus and minus infinity within the range of validity of the diffractive approximation kR <<4. We study the statistics exhibited by spectra for fixed values of c. It is Poissonian for |c|=infinity, provided the disk is placed inside a rectangle whose sides obeys some constraints. For c=0 we find a good agreement of the level spacing distribution with GOE, whereas the form factor and two-point correlation function are similar but exhibit larger deviations. By varying the parameter c from 0 to infinity the level statistics interpolates smoothly between these limiting cases.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9710012

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum chaosSinai billiardmesoscopic physicssemiclassical quantizationEwald resummation method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Quantum chaos (81Q50)

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