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Statistical analysis of level spacing ratios in pseudo-integrable systems: semi-Poisson insight and beyond

Quantum Physics 2025-05-23 v1

Abstract

We studied the statistical properties of a quantum system in the pseudo-integrable regime through the gap ratios between consecutive energy levels of the scattering spectra. A two-dimensional quantum billiard containing a point-like (zero-range) perturbation was experimentally simulated by a flat rectangular resonator with wire antennas. We show that the system exhibits semi-Poisson behavior in the frequency range 8<ν<168 <\nu < 16 GHz. The probability distribution P(r)P(r) of the studied system is characterized by the parameter ξ=0.97±0.03\xi=0.97 \pm 0.03 , with the expected value ξ=1\xi=1 for the short-range plasma model. Furthermore, we provide a theoretical expression for the higher-order non-overlapping probability distribution PsPk(r)P_{\mathrm{sP}}^k(r), k1k \geq 1, in the semi-Poisson regime, incorporating long-range spectral correlations between levels. The experimental and numerical results confirm the pseudo-integrability of the studied system. The semi-Poisson ensemble, for k=2k=2, approaches the GUE distribution. In addition, the uncorrelated Poisson statistics mimic the RMT ensembles at certain kk values, k=4k=4 for GUE and k=7k=7 for GSE. This unexpected scale-dependent convergence shows how spectral statistics can exhibit chaos-like features even in non-chaotic systems, suggesting that scale-dependent analysis bridges integrable and chaotic regimes.

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@article{arxiv.2505.16656,
  title  = {Statistical analysis of level spacing ratios in pseudo-integrable systems: semi-Poisson insight and beyond},
  author = {Afshin Akhshani and Małgorzata Białous and Leszek Sirko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.16656},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Submitted to Phys. Rev. E 2025