Superscar states in rational polygon billiards -- a reality or an illusion?

DOI10.1063/1.5019021zbMATH Open1394.81174arXiv1711.04379OpenAlexW2769616669MaRDI QIDQ4583098FDOQ4583098

Authors: Stefan Giller 

Publication date: 27 August 2018

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

Abstract: The superscars phenomena (Heller, E.J., Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, (1984) 1515) in the rational polygon billiards (RPB) are analysed using the high energy semiclassical wave functions (SWF) built on classical trajectories forming skeletons. Considering examples of the pseudointegrable billiards such as the Bogomolny-Schmit triangle, the parallelogram and the L-shape billiards as well as the integrable rectangular one the constructed SWFs allow us to verify the idea of Bogomolny and Schmit (Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 (2004) 244102) of SWFs (superscars) propagating along periodic orbit channels (POC) and vanishing outside of them. It is shown that the superscars effects in RPB appear as natural properties of SWFs built on the periodic skeletons. The latter skeletons are commonly present in RPB and are always composed of POCs. The SWFs built on the periodic skeletons satisfy all the basic principles of the quantum mechanics contrary to the superscar states of Bogomolny and Schmit which break them. Therefore the superscars effects need not to invoke the idea of the superscar states of Bogomolny and Schmit at least in the cases considered in our paper.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.04379

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Atomic physics (81V45)

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