Orbit bifurcations and the scarring of wave functions

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2001.0790zbMATH Open0990.81036arXivnlin/0010022OpenAlexW2147050575MaRDI QIDQ4535294FDOQ4535294

Authors: J. P. Keating, S. D. Prado 

Publication date: 13 June 2002

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We extend the semiclassical theory of scarring of quantum eigenfunctions psi_{n}(q) by classical periodic orbits to include situations where these orbits undergo generic bifurcations. It is shown that |psi_{n}(q)|^{2}, averaged locally with respect to position q and the energy spectrum E_{n}, has structure around bifurcating periodic orbits with an amplitude and length-scale whose hbar-dependence is determined by the bifurcation in question. Specifically, the amplitude scales as hbar^{alpha} and the length-scale as hbar^{w}, and values of the scar exponents, alpha and w, are computed for a variety of generic bifurcations. In each case, the scars are semiclassically wider than those associated with isolated and unstable periodic orbits; moreover, their amplitude is at least as large, and in most cases larger. In this sense, bifurcations may be said to give rise to superscars. The competition between the contributions from different bifurcations to determine the moments of the averaged eigenfunction amplitude is analysed. We argue that there is a resulting universal hbar-scaling in the semiclassical asymptotics of these moments for irregular states in systems with a mixed phase-space dynamics. Finally, a number of these predictions are illustrated by numerical computations for a family of perturbed cat maps.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0010022

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zbMATH Keywords

semiclassical asymptoticsperturbed cat maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Quantum chaos (81Q50)

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