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Published on: January 3, 2016
Measure for Chaotic Scattering Amplitudes
Massimo Bianchi1, Maurizio Firrotta1, Jacob Sonnenschein2
1Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Roma, Italy and INFN sezione di Roma Tor Vergata Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Roma, Italy.
Abstract:
We propose a novel measure of chaotic scattering amplitudes. It takes the form of a log-normal distribution function for the ratios r_{n}=δ_{n}/δ_{n+1} of (consecutive) spacings δ_{n} between two (consecutive) peaks of the scattering amplitude. We show that the same measure applies to the quantum mechanical scattering on a leaky torus as well as to the decay of highly excited string states into two tachyons. Quite remarkably, the r_{n} obey the same distribution that governs the nontrivial zeros of Riemann ζ function.

