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Arnd Bäcker1, Roland Ketzmerick, Steffen Löck
1Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany.
Abstract:
For systems with a mixed phase space we demonstrate that dynamical tunneling universally leads to a fractional power law of the level-spacing distribution P(s) over a wide range of small spacings s. Going beyond Berry-Robnik statistics, we take into account that dynamical tunneling rates between the regular and the chaotic region vary over many orders of magnitude. This results in a prediction of P(s) which excellently describes the spectral data of the standard map. Moreover, we show that the power-law exponent is proportional to the effective Planck constant h(eff).
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