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Scarred eigenstates for arithmetic toral point scatterers

Mathematical Physics 2016-11-23 v1 Analysis of PDEs math.MP Number Theory Chaotic Dynamics

Abstract

We investigate eigenfunctions of the Laplacian perturbed by a delta potential on the standard tori Rd/2πZd\mathbb{R}^d/2 \pi\mathbb{Z}^d in dimensions d=2,3d=2,3. Despite quantum ergodicity holding for the set of "new" eigenfunctions we show that there is scarring in the momentum representation for d=2,3d=2,3, as well as in the position representation for d=2d=2 (i.e., the eigenfunctions fail to equidistribute in phase space along an infinite subsequence of new eigenvalues.) For d=3d=3, scarred eigenstates are quite rare, but for d=2d=2 scarring in the momentum representation is very common --- with N2(x)x/logxN_{2}(x) \sim x/\sqrt{\log x} denoting the counting function for the new eigenvalues below xx, there are N2(x)/logAx\gg N_{2}(x)/\log^A x eigenvalues corresponding to momentum scarred eigenfunctions.

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@article{arxiv.1508.02978,
  title  = {Scarred eigenstates for arithmetic toral point scatterers},
  author = {Pär Kurlberg and Lior Rosenzweig},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.02978},
  year   = {2016}
}

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31 pages, 1 figure

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