Geometry of high-lying eigenfunctions in a plane billiard system having mixed-type classical dynamics

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/28/10/012zbMATH Open0838.58025arXivchao-dyn/9501020OpenAlexW3105735078MaRDI QIDQ4845692FDOQ4845692

Baowen Li, Marko Robnik

Publication date: 6 June 1996

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

Abstract: In this work we study the geometrical properties of the high-lying eigenfunctions (200,000 and above) which are deep in the semiclassical regime. The system we are analyzing is the billiard system inside the region defined by the quadratic (complex) conformal map $w=z+lambda{z}^2$ of the unit disk $|z|le1$ as introduced by Robnik (1983), with the shape parameter value $lambda=0.15$, so that the billiard is still convex and has KAM-type classical dynamics, where regular and irregular regions of classical motion coexist in the classical phase space. By inspecting 100 and by showing 36 consecutive numerically calculated eigenfunctions we reach the following conclusions: (1) Percival's (1973) conjectured classification in regular and irregular states works well: the mixed type states "living" on regular {em and} irregular regions disappear in the semiclassical limit. (2) The irregular (chaotic) states can be strongly localized due to the slow classical diffusion, but become fully extended in the semiclassical limit when the break time becomes sufficiently large with respect to the classical diffusion time. (3) Almost all states can be clearly associated with some relevant classical object like invariant torus, cantorus or periodic orbits. This paper is largely qualitative but deep in the semiclassical limit and as such it is a prelude to our next paper which is quantitative and numerically massive but at about ten times lower energies.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9501020

zbMATH Keywords

quantum chaosSchrödinger equationplane billiard systemquantum Wigner phase space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) 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) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Quantum chaos (81Q50)

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