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Towards a semiclassical understanding of chaotic single- and many-particle quantum dynamics at post-Heisenberg time
Daniel Waltner1, Klaus Richter2
1Fakultät für Physik, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Lotharstraße 1, D-47048 Duisburg, Germany.
Abstract:
Despite considerable progress during the past decades in devising a semiclassical theory for classically chaotic quantum systems a quantitative semiclassical understanding of their dynamics at late times (beyond the so-called Heisenberg time T_{H}) is still missing. This challenge, corresponding to resolving spectral structures on energy scales below the mean level spacing, is intimately related to the quest for semiclassically restoring unitary quantum evolution. Guided through insights for quantum graphs we devise a periodic-orbit resummation procedure for spectra of quantum chaotic systems invoking periodic-orbit self-encounters as the structuring element of a hierarchical phase space dynamics. Quantum unitarity is reflected in real-valued spectral determinants with zeros giving discrete energy levels. We propose a way to purely semiclassically construct such real spectral determinants based on two major underlying mechanisms. (i) Complementary contributions to the spectral determinant from regrouped pseudo-orbits of duration T
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