Spectral form factor of hyperbolic systems: leading off-diagonal approximation

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/36/26/304MaRDI QIDQ4466329zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dominique Spehner

Publication date 9 June 2004

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0303051

zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolic systemsperiodic orbit theoryquantum Hamiltonian systemrandom-matrix theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random matrices (algebraic aspects) (15B52) Complex behavior and chaotic systems of ordinary differential equations (34C28) Dynamical systems with hyperbolic orbits and sets (37D05) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41)

Abstract: The spectral fluctuations of a quantum Hamiltonian system with time-reversal symmetry are studied in the semiclassical limit by using periodic-orbit theory. It is found that, if long periodic orbits are hyperbolic and uniformly distributed in phase space, the spectral form factor agrees with the GOE prediction of random-matrix theory up to second order included in the time measured in units of the Heisenberg time (leading off-diagonal approximation). Our approach is based on the mechanism of periodic-orbit correlations discovered recently by Sieber and Richter (Phys. Scr. T 90, 128, 2001). By reformulating the theory of these authors in phase space, their result on the free motion on a Riemann surface with constant negative curvature is extended to general Hamiltonian hyperbolic systems with two degrees of freedom.

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