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Uniform Semiclassical Wavepacket Propagation and Eigenstate Extraction in a Smooth Chaotic System

chao-dyn 2009-10-22 v1 chem-ph Chaotic Dynamics

Abstract

A uniform semiclassical propagator is used to time evolve a wavepacket in a smooth Hamiltonian system at energies for which the underlying classical motion is chaotic. The propagated wavepacket is Fourier transformed to yield a scarred eigenstate.

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@article{arxiv.chao-dyn/9411019,
  title  = {Uniform Semiclassical Wavepacket Propagation and Eigenstate Extraction in a Smooth Chaotic System},
  author = {Daniel Provost and Paul Brumer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:chao-dyn/9411019},
  year   = {2009}
}

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