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Quantization of generic chaotic 3D billiard with smooth boundary II: structure of high-lying eigenstates

chao-dyn 2009-10-28 v1 Chaotic Dynamics

Abstract

This is the first survey of highly excited eigenstates of a chaotic 3D billiard. We introduce a strongly chaotic 3D billiard with a smooth boundary and we manage to calculate accurate eigenstates with sequential number (of a 48-fold desymmetrized billiard) about 45,000. Besides the brute-force calculation of 3D wavefunctions we propose and illustrate another two representations of eigenstates of quantum 3D billiards: (i) normal derivative of a wavefunction over the boundary surface, and (ii) ray - angular momentum representation. The majority of eigenstates is found to be more or less uniformly extended over the entire energy surface, as expected, but there is also a fraction of strongly localized - scarred eigenstates which are localized either (i) on to classical periodic orbits or (ii) on to planes which carry (2+2)-dim classically invariant manifolds, although the classical dynamics is strongly chaotic and non-diffusive.

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@article{arxiv.chao-dyn/9611016,
  title  = {Quantization of generic chaotic 3D billiard with smooth boundary II: structure of high-lying eigenstates},
  author = {Tomaz Prosen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:chao-dyn/9611016},
  year   = {2009}
}

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12 pages in plain Latex (5 figures in PCL format available upon request) Submitted to Phys.Lett.A