Universality of level spacing distributions in classical chaos

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2008.04.044MaRDI QIDQ716888zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. Kharzeev

Publication date 27 September 2011

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0702037

zbMATH Keywords

spectral rigidityspectral auto-correlation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random matrices (algebraic aspects) (15B52) Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45)

Abstract: We suggest that random matrix theory applied to a classical action matrix can be used in classical physics to distinguish chaotic from non-chaotic behavior. We consider the 2-D stadium billiard system as well as the 2-D anharmonic and harmonic oscillator. By unfolding of the spectrum of such matrix we compute the level spacing distribution, the spectral auto-correlation and spectral rigidity. We observe Poissonian behavior in the integrable case and Wignerian behavior in the chaotic case. We present numerical evidence that the action matrix of the stadium billiard displays GOE behavior and give an explanation for it. The findings present evidence for universality of level fluctuations - known from quantum chaos - also to hold in classical physics.

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