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Quantum chaos with graphs: a silicon photonics plateform

Quantum Physics 2026-05-14 v1 Instrumentation and Detectors

Abstract

We provide a versatile plateform to investigate wave-particle duality. This photonic waveguide network implements quantum (wave) graphs as proposed in the seminal paper by Kottos \& Smilansky [PRL \textbf{85} 968 (2000)]. We experimentally demonstrated that the spectral statistics of a mixing (i.e. strongly chaotic) graph follows the predictions of random matrix theory, contrary to an ergodic (i.e. less chaotic) graph, in agreement with the Bohigas-Giannoni-Schmit conjecture [PRL \textbf{52} 1 (1984)]. This plateform also gives access to the wavefunction patterns, which are expected to verify the quantum ergodicity theorem.

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@article{arxiv.2605.12538,
  title  = {Quantum chaos with graphs: a silicon photonics plateform},
  author = {H. Girin and X. Chécoury and B. Odouard and S. Bittner and J. -R. Coudevylle and B. Dietz and C. Lafargue and M. Lebental},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.12538},
  year   = {2026}
}

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12 pages, 13 figures

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