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Flooding of chaotic eigenstates into regular phase space islands
Arnd Bäcker1, Roland Ketzmerick, Alejandro G Monastra
1Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany.
Abstract:
We introduce a criterion for the existence of regular states in systems with a mixed phase space. If this condition is not fulfilled chaotic eigenstates substantially extend into a regular island. Wave packets started in the chaotic sea progressively flood the island. The extent of flooding by eigenstates and wave packets increases logarithmically with the size of the chaotic sea and the time, respectively. This new effect is observed for the example of island chains with just ten islands.
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