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Quantum mushroom billiards.

Alex H Barnett¹, Timo Betcke

¹Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA. ahb@math.dartmouth.edu

Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.)

|January 1, 2008

Summary

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This study statistically analyzes quantum states in the mushroom billiard, verifying Percival's conjecture and proposing a dynamical tunneling model. The findings advance understanding of complex quantum systems and computational methods.

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Area of Science:

Quantum mechanics
Statistical physics
Dynamical systems

Background:

The mushroom billiard is a unique mixed dynamical system with distinct regular and chaotic regions.
Previous studies lacked large-scale statistical analysis of its high-lying quantum states.

Purpose of the Study:

To conduct the first large-scale statistical study of high-lying eigenmodes in the mushroom billiard.
To verify Percival's conjecture and develop a model for dynamical tunneling.
To compare eigenvalue spacing distributions with Random Matrix Theory.

Main Methods:

Utilized mesh-free boundary collocation methods for high accuracy and efficiency.
Analyzed approximately 16,000 odd modes, significantly increasing sample size.
Developed and tested a novel model for dynamical tunneling.

Main Results:

Percival's conjecture was verified with high accuracy (1.7%).
The proposed dynamical tunneling model accurately predicts chaotic components in regular modes.
The density of superpositions was observed to decay as E(-1/3).
Eigenvalue spacing distributions align with Random Matrix Theory predictions.

Conclusions:

The study provides significant statistical insights into the quantum behavior of the mushroom billiard.
The new computational methods offer substantial speed and accuracy improvements.
The findings contribute to the understanding of quantum chaos and dynamical tunneling.