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The suppression of chaos in quantum reality is evident in quantum scars, i.e., in enhanced probability densities along classical periodic orbits, providing opportunities in controlling quantum transport in nanoscale quantum systems. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 J. Keski-Rahkonen , P. J. J. Luukko , S. Åberg , E. Räsänen

We reveal a feature of quantum scarring in systems with many particles: Quantum scars, living densely near an unstable periodic orbit, must be compensated by corresponding antiscarred states suppressed there to establish the uniformity of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Zhongling Lu , Anton M. Graf , Eric J. Heller , Joonas Keski-Rahkonen , Ceren B. Dag

In addition to the well known scarring effect of periodic orbits, we show here that homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits, which are cornerstones in the theory of classical chaos, also scar eigenfunctions of classically chaotic systems when…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. A. Wisniacki , E. Vergini , R. M. Benito , F. Borondo

Ergodicity, a fundamental concept in statistical mechanics, is not yet a fully understood phenomena for closed quantum systems, particularly its connection with the underlying chaos. In this review, we consider a few examples of collective…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-20 Sudip Sinha , Sayak Ray , Subhasis Sinha

Quantum scars refer to eigenstates with enhanced probability density along unstable classical periodic orbits (POs). First predicted 40 years ago, scars are special eigenstates that counterintuitively defy ergodicity in quantum systems…

We introduce the concept of ergodicity and explore its deviation caused by quantum scars in an isolated quantum system, employing a pedagogical approach based on a toy model. Quantum scars, originally identified as traces of classically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-02 Sudip Sinha , S. Sinha

Chaos makes isolated systems of many interacting particles quickly thermalize and forget about their past. Here, we show that quantum mechanics hinders chaos in many-body systems: although the quantum eigenstates are thermal and strongly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Andrea Pizzi , Long-Hei Kwan , Bertrand Evrard , Ceren B. Dag , Johannes Knolle

We discover and characterize strong quantum scars, or eigenstates resembling classical periodic orbits, in two-dimensional quantum wells perturbed by local impurities. These scars are not explained by ordinary scar theory, which would…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-07 Perttu J. J. Luukko , Byron Drury , Anna Klales , Lev Kaplan , Eric J. Heller , Esa Räsänen

We review recent progress in attaining a quantitative understanding of the scarring phenomenon, the non-random behavior of quantum wavefunctions near unstable periodic orbits of a classically chaotic system. The wavepacket dynamics…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-08-14 L. Kaplan

A quantum eigenstate of a classically chaotic system is referred as scarred by an unstable periodic orbit if its probability density is concentrated in the vicinity of that orbit. Recently, a new class of scarring - variational scarring -…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-17 J. Keski-Rahkonen , C. Zou , A. M. Graf , Q. Yao , T. Zhu , J. Velasco, , E. J. Heller

Unstable periodic orbits are known to originate scars on some eigenfunctions of classically chaotic systems through recurrences causing that some part of an initial distribution of quantum probability in its vicinity returns periodically…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-08-17 F. Borondo , D. A. Wisniacki , E. G. Vergini , R. M. Benito

In a classically chaotic system that is ergodic, any trajectory will be arbitrarily close to any point of the available phase space after a long time, filling it uniformly. Using Born's rules to connect quantum states with probabilities,…

A quantum scar - an enhancement of a quantum probability density in the vicinity of a classical periodic orbit - is a fundamental phenomenon connecting quantum and classical mechanics. Here we demonstrate that some of the eigenstates of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-25 J. Keski-Rahkonen , A. Ruhanen , E. J. Heller , E. Räsänen

The phenomenon of periodic orbit scarring of eigenstates of classically chaotic systems is attracting increasing attention. Scarring is one of the most important "corrections" to the ideal random eigenstates suggested by random matrix…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-08-14 L. Kaplan , E. J. Heller

We predict and numerically observe strong periodic orbit effects in the properties of open quantum systems with a chaotic classical limit. Antiscars lead to a large number of exponentially narrow resonances when the opening is located on a…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-08-14 L. Kaplan

We theoretically propose a quantum scar affecting the motion of three interacting particles in a circular trap. We numerically calculate the quantum eigenstates of the system and show that some of them are scarred by a classically unstable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 D. J. Papoular , B. Zumer

We report the numerical observation of scarring, that is enhancement of probability density around unstable periodic orbits of a chaotic system, in the eigenfunctions of the classical Perron-Frobenius operator of noisy Anosov ("cat") maps,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-12 Domenico Lippolis , Akira Shudo , Kensuke Yoshida , Hajime Yoshino

The theory of scarring of eigenfunctions of classically chaotic systems by short periodic orbits is extended in several ways. The influence of short-time linear recurrences on correlations and fluctuations at long times is emphasized. We…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-08-14 L. Kaplan , E. J. Heller

We present a novel extension of the concept of scars for the wave functions of classically chaotic few-body systems of identical particles with rotation and permutation symmetry. Generically there exist manifolds in classical phase space…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-30 T. Papenbrock , T. H. Seligman , H. A. Weidenmueller

Unlike classical system, understanding ergodicity from phase space mixing remains unclear for interacting quantum systems due to the absence of phase space trajectories. By considering an interacting spin model known as kicked coupled top,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-01 Debabrata Mondal , Sudip Sinha , Subhasis Sinha
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