Scaling asymptotics of spectral Wigner functions
Mathematical Physics
2022-10-12 v2 math.MP
Spectral Theory
Abstract
We prove that smooth Wigner-Weyl spectral sums at an energy level exhibit Airy scaling asymptotics across the classical energy surface . This was proved earlier by the authors for the isotropic harmonic oscillator and the proof is extended in this article to all quantum Hamiltonians where is a confining potential with at most quadratic growth at infinity. The main tools are the Herman-Kluk initial value parametrix for the propagator and the Chester-Friedman-Ursell normal form for complex phases with a one-dimensional cubic degeneracy. This gives a rigorous account of Airy scaling asymptotics of spectral Wigner distributions of M.V. Berry, A. Ozorio de Almeida and other physicists.
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@article{arxiv.2207.13571,
title = {Scaling asymptotics of spectral Wigner functions},
author = {Boris Hanin and Steve Zelditch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.13571},
year = {2022}
}