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We show that the semiclassical approach to chaotic quantum transport in the presence of time-reversal symmetry can be described by a matrix model, i.e. a matrix integral whose perturbative expansion satisfies the semiclassical diagrammatic…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-02-11 Marcel Novaes

We study the universal fluctuations of the Wigner-Smith time delay for systems which exhibit chaotic dynamics in their classical limit. We present a new derivation of the semiclassical relation of the quantum time delay to properties of the…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-30 R. O. Vallejos , A. M. Ozorio de Almeida , C. H. Lewenkopf

The spectral fluctuations of complex quantum systems, in appropriate limit, are known to be consistent with that obtained from random matrices. However, this relation between the spectral fluctuations of physical systems and random matrices…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 S. Harshini Tekur , M. S. Santhanam

For chaotic scattering on quantum graphs, the semiclassical approximation is exact. We use this fact and employ supersymmetry, the colour-flavour transformation, and the saddle-point approximation to calculate the exact expression for the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 Z. Pluhar , H. A. Weidenmüller

Electronic transport through chaotic quantum dots exhibits universal, system independent, properties, consistent with random matrix theory. The quantum transport can also be rooted, via the semiclassical approximation, in sums over the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-03-06 Gregory Berkolaiko , Jack Kuipers

We show that in the semiclassical limit, classically chaotic systems have universal spectral statistics. Concentrating on short-time statistics, we identify the pairs of classical periodic orbits determining the small-$\tau$ behavior of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sebastian Müller

We calculate the S-matrix correlation function for chaotic scattering on quantum graphs and show that it agrees with that of random--matrix theory (RMT). We also calculate all higher S-matrix correlation functions in the Ericson regime.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Z. Pluhar , H. A. Weidenmueller

Quantum graphs are a paradigmatic model for quantum chaos as well as for spectral theory. We give a concise didactical introduction to quantum graphs, or Schr\"odinger Hamiltonians on metric graphs, with a focus on results related to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Gregory Berkolaiko , Sven Gnutzmann

We prove that the spectrum of an individual chaotic quantum graph shows universal spectral correlations, as predicted by random--matrix theory. The stability of these correlations with regard to non--universal corrections is analyzed in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sven Gnutzmann , Alexander Altland

Equilibration plays a fundamental role in our understanding of statistical mechanics and the long-time dynamics of many-body systems. In quantum systems, the route to equilibration is intimately related to level repulsion and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 V. M. Bastidas , H. L. Nourse , A. Sakurai , A. Hayashi , S. Nishio , Kae Nemoto , W. J. Munro

We study a quasi-Floquet state of a $\delta$-kicked rotor with absorbing boundaries focusing on the nature of the dynamical localization in open quantum systems. The localization lengths $\xi$ of lossy quasi-Floquet states located near the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jung-Wan Ryu , G. Hur , Sang Wook Kim

Quantum chaotic dynamics is obtained for a tight-binding model in which the energies of the atomic levels at the boundary sites are chosen at random. Results for the square lattice indicate that the energy spectrum shows a complex behavior…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 E. Cuevas , E. Louis , J. A. Verges

Chaotic systems exhibit rich quantum dynamical behaviors ranging from dynamical localization to normal diffusion to ballistic motion. Dynamical localization and normal diffusion simulate electron motion in an impure crystal with a vanishing…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-12-31 Ping Fang , Chushun Tian , Jiao Wang

Dynamical symmetry breaking in an expanding nuclear system is investigated in semi-classical and quantum framework by employing a collective transport model which is constructed to mimic the collective behavior of expanding systems. It is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Wen , P. Chau Huu-Tai , D. Lacroix , Ph. Chomaz , S. Ayik

Spatial symmetries of quantum systems leads to important effects in spectroscopy, such as selection rules and dark states. Motivated by the increasing strength of light-matter interaction achieved in recent experiments, we investigate a set…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-13 Georg Engelhardt , Jianshu Cao

We consider a quasi one-dimensional chain of N chaotic scattering elements with periodic boundary conditions. The classical dynamics of this system is dominated by diffusion. The quantum theory, on the other hand, depends crucially on…

chao-dyn · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Dittrich , B. Mehlig , H. Schanz , U. Smilansky

The statistics of S-matrix fluctuations are numerically investigated on a model for irregular quantum scattering in which a classical chaotic diffusion takes place within the interaction region. Agreement with various random-matrix…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-22 Fausto Borgonovi , Italo Guarneri

We investigate beyond-mean-field dynamics in a fully connected $\mathrm{SU}(3)$ spin-exchange model, focusing on the interplay between chaotic dynamics and quantum fluctuations. Using the two-particle irreducible (2PI) effective action…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-27 Aleksandra A. Ziolkowska , Aleksandr N. Mikheev

By studying a modified (unbiased) quantum multibaker map, we were able to obtain a {\em finite} asymptotic quantum current without a classical analogue. This result suggests a general method for the design of {\em purely} quantum ratchets,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Leonardo Ermann , Gabriel G. Carlo , Marcos Saraceno

Quantum decay in an ac driven biased periodic potential modeling cold atoms in optical lattices is studied for a symmetry broken driving. For the case of fully chaotic classical dynamics the classical exponential decay is quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Mossmann , C. Schumann , H. J. Korsch