Nodal Sets of Random Eigenfunctions for the Isotropic Harmonic Oscillator

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNU071MaRDI QIDQ5264496zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Boris Hanin, Peng Zhou, Steve Zelditch

Publication date 27 July 2015

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.4532

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamilton's equations (70H05) 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)

Abstract: We consider Gaussian random eigenfunctions (Hermite functions) of fixed energy level of the isotropic semi-classical Harmonic Oscillator on $$. We calculate the expected density of zeros of a random eigenfunction in the semi-classical limit $ho0.$ In the allowed region the density is of order $h^{-1},$ while in the forbidden region the density is of order $h^{-frac12}$. The computer graphics due to E.J. Heller illustrate this difference in "frequency" between the allowed and forbidden nodal sets.

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