Statistics of wave functions for a point scatterer on the torus

DOI10.1007/S00220-012-1556-2zbMATH Open1268.58024arXiv1109.4582OpenAlexW3098893027MaRDI QIDQ694975FDOQ694975

Authors: Henrik Ueberschär, Zeév Rudnick 

Publication date: 20 December 2012

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

Abstract: Quantum systems whose classical counterpart have ergodic dynamics are quantum ergodic in the sense that almost all eigenstates are uniformly distributed in phase space. In contrast, when the classical dynamics is integrable, there is concentration of eigenfunctions on invariant structures in phase space. In this paper we study eigenfunction statistics for the Laplacian perturbed by a delta-potential (also known as a point scatterer) on a flat torus, a popular model used to study the transition between integrability and chaos in quantum mechanics. The eigenfunctions of this operator consist of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian which vanish at the scatterer, and new, or perturbed, eigenfunctions. We show that almost all of the perturbed eigenfunctions are uniformly distributed in configuration space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4582

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zbMATH Keywords

torusLaplacianscattering theoryspectral problemseigenfunction statisticsrelations between spectral theory and ergodic theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ergodic theorems, spectral theory, Markov operators (37A30) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices (81Q35) Relations between spectral theory and ergodic theory, e.g., quantum unique ergodicity (58J51)

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