The level splitting distribution in chaos-assisted tunnelling

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/29/10/030zbMATH Open0925.81036arXivchao-dyn/9510005OpenAlexW2109565544MaRDI QIDQ4389963FDOQ4389963

Denis Ullmo, F. Leyvraz

Publication date: 12 August 1998

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

Abstract: A compound tunneling mechanism from one integrable region to another mediated by a delocalized state in an intermediate chaotic region of phase space was recently introduced to explain peculiar features of tunneling in certain two-dimensional systems. This mechanism is known as chaos-assisted tunneling. We study its consequences for the distribution of the level splittings and obtain a general analytical form for this distribution under the assumption that chaos assisted tunneling is the only operative mechanism. %The validity of this form can then in %principle be checked either numerically or even experimentally. We have checked that the analytical form we obtain agrees with splitting distributions calculated numerically for a model system in which chaos-assisted tunneling is known to be the dominant mechanism. The distribution depends on two parameters: The first gives the scale of the splittings and is related to the magnitude of the classically forbidden processes, the second gives a measure of the efficiency of possible barriers to classical transport which may exist in the chaotic region. If these are weak, this latter parameter is irrelevant; otherwise it sets an energy scale at which the splitting distribution crosses over from one type of behavior to another. The detailed form of the crossover is also obtained and found to be in good agreement with numerical results for models for chaos-assisted tunneling.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9510005

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum chaos (81Q50)

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