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The anomalously strong scarring of wavefunctions found in numerical studies of quantum wells in a tilted magnetic field is shown to be due to special properties of the classical dynamics of this system. A certain subset of periodic orbits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 E. E. Narimanov , A. Douglas Stone

We numerically investigate the stability of exceptional periodic classical trajectories in rather generic chaotic many-body systems and explore a possible connection between these trajectories and exceptional nonthermal quantum eigenstates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Igor Ermakov , Oleg Lychkovskiy , Boris V. Fine

We examine the effect of short unstable periodic orbits on wavefunction statistics in a classically chaotic system, and find that the tail of the wavefunction intensity distribution in phase space is dominated by scarring associated with…

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

Classical nonlinear theories are highly successful in describing far-from-equilibrium dynamics of magnets, encompassing phenomena such as parametric resonance, ultrafast switching, and even chaos. However, at ultrashort length and time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Lukas Körber , Pim Coenders , Johan H. Mentink

As a contribution to the inverse scattering problem for classical chaotic systems, we show that one can select sequences of intervals of continuity, each of which yields the information about period, eigenvalue and symmetry of one unstable…

chao-dyn · Physics 2016-08-31 Thomas Bütikofer , Christof Jung , Thomas H. Seligman

In this paper we study in detail the localized wave functions defined in Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 76}, 1613 (1994), in connection with the scarring effect of unstable periodic orbits in highly chaotic Hamiltonian system. These functions appear…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. A. Wisniacki , F. Borondo , E. Vergini , R. M. Benito

Unstable periodic orbits scar wave functions in chaotic systems. This also influences the associated spectra, that follow the otherwise universal Porter--Thomas intensity distribution. We show here how this deviation extend to other longer…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. A. Wisniacki , F. Borondo , E. Vergini , R. M. Benito

We analyze quantum dynamics of strongly interacting, kinetically constrained many-body systems. Motivated by recent experiments demonstrating surprising long-lived, periodic revivals after quantum quenches in Rydberg atom arrays, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-31 Wen Wei Ho , Soonwon Choi , Hannes Pichler , Mikhail D. Lukin

We show that enhanced wavefunction localization due to the presence of short unstable orbits and strong scarring can rely on completely different mechanisms. Specifically we find that in quantum networks the shortest and most stable orbits…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Holger Schanz , Tsampikos Kottos

Special subsets of orbits in chaotic systems, e.g. periodic orbits, heteroclinic orbits, closed orbits, can be considered as skeletons or scaffolds upon which the full dynamics of the system is built. In particular, as demonstrated in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-09-28 Jizhou Li , Steven Tomsovic

We obtain general predictions for the distribution of wave function intensities in position space on the periodic orbits of chaotic ballistic systems. The expressions depend on effective system size N, instability exponent lambda of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-08-14 K. Damborsky , L. Kaplan

Correspondence between classical periodic orbits and quantum shell structure is investigated for a reflection-asymmetric deformed oscillator model as a function of quadrupole and octupole deformation parameters. Periodic orbit theory…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Ken-ichiro Arita , Kenichi Matsuyanagi

We investigate scarred resonances of a stadium-shaped chaotic microcavity. It is shown that two components with different chirality of the scarring pattern are slightly rotated in opposite ways from the underlying unstable periodic orbit,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 Soo-Young Lee , Jung-Wan Ryu , Tae-Yoon Kwon , Sunghwan Rim , Chil-Min Kim

A finite universe naturally supports chaotic classical motion. An ordered fractal emerges from the chaotic dynamics which we characterize in full for a compact 2-dimensional octagon. In the classical to quantum transition, the underlying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Janna Levin , John D. Barrow

Investigating the possibility of applying techniques from linear systems theory to the setting of nonlinear systems has been the focus of many papers. The pseudo linear form representation of nonlinear dynamical systems has led to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Hamed Ghane , Alef Sterk , Holger Waalkens

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

We discuss recent developments in the study of quantum wavefunctions and transport in classically ergodic systems. Surprisingly, short-time classical dynamics leaves permanent imprints on long-time and stationary quantum behavior, which are…

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

The classical invariants of a Hamiltonian system are expected to be derivable from the respective quantum spectrum. In fact, semiclassical expressions relate periodic orbits with eigenfunctions and eigenenergies of classical chaotic…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Diego. A. Wisniacki , Eduardo Vergini

Generic quantum many-body systems are expected to thermalize, scrambling initial coherence while local observables relax to equilibrium values. Weak ergodicity breaking, often associated with quantum many-body scarring of homogeneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Aron Kerschbaumer , Jean-Yves Desaules , Maksym Serbyn

We study the eigenstate properties of a nonintegrable spin chain that was recently realized experimentally in a Rydberg-atom quantum simulator. In the experiment, long-lived coherent many-body oscillations were observed only when the system…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-04 Thomas Iadecola , Michael Schecter , Shenglong Xu