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The spectral form factor near the Ehrenfest-time

Chaotic Dynamics 2007-08-22 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We calculate the Ehrenfest-time dependence of the leading quantum correction to the spectral form factor of a ballistic chaotic cavity using periodic orbit theory. For the case of broken time-reversal symmetry, our result differs from that previously obtained using field-theoretic methods [Tian and Larkin, Phys. Rev. B 70, 035305 (2004)]. The discrepancy shows that short-time regularization procedures dramatically affect physics near the Ehrenfest-time.

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@article{arxiv.nlin/0607025,
  title  = {The spectral form factor near the Ehrenfest-time},
  author = {Piet W. Brouwer and Saar Rahav and Chushun Tian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0607025},
  year   = {2007}
}

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6 pages, 1 figure