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Generation and Coherent Control of Pulsed Quantum Frequency Combs
Published on: June 8, 2018
Quantum mechanical calculation of spectral statistics of a modified Kepler problem
1Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45244-0011, USA.
Abstract:
For a modified Kepler problem, we reexamine jumps in the saturation spectral rigidity and large oscillations of the level number variance with near zero minima. Earlier discrepancy between the periodic orbit theory and numerical calculation is cleared by a quantum mechanical calculation. A new class of radial periodic orbits is included establishing a complete correspondence between the periodic orbit theory and the quantum mechanical approach. We show that the diagonal approximation for the level density in the periodic orbit theory already gives a good fit with the numerical calculation. Even greater accuracy is achieved by considering coherent interference between the classical periodic orbits term and the Balian-Bloch term. This procedure produces improved results for the hard-wall rectangular billiards as well.
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