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We develop a quantitative semiclassical theory for the resosnant tunneling through a quantum well in a tilted magnetic field. It is shown, that in the leading semiclassical approximation the tunneling current depends only on periodic orbits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. E. Narimanov , A. D. Stone

For generic Hamiltonian systems we derive predictions for dynamical tunneling from regular to chaotic phase-space regions. In contrast to previous approaches, we account for the resonance-assisted enhancement of regular-to-chaotic tunneling…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-01-04 Normann Mertig , Julius Kullig , Clemens Löbner , Arnd Bäcker , Roland Ketzmerick

In generic Hamiltonian systems tori of regular motion are dynamically separated from regions of chaotic motion in phase space. Quantum mechanically these phase-space regions are coupled by dynamical tunneling. We introduce a semiclassical…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-05 Normann Mertig , Steffen Löck , Arnd Bäcker , Roland Ketzmerick , Akira Shudo

Assuming the validity of random matrices for describing the statistics of a closed chaotic quantum system, we study analytically some statistical properties of the S-matrix characterizing scattering in its open counterpart. In the first…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Yan. V. Fyodorov , H. -J. Sommers

We develop the semiclassical method of complex trajectories in application to chaotic dynamical tunneling. First, we suggest a systematic numerical technique for obtaining complex tunneling trajectories by the gradual deformation of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. G. Levkov , A. G. Panin , S. M. Sibiryakov

Dynamical tunnelling between symmetry-related stable modes is studied in the periodically driven pendulum. We present strong evidence that the tunnelling process is governed by nonlinear resonances that manifest within the regular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Amaury Mouchet , Christopher Eltschka , Peter Schlagheck

The connection between scarring and tunneling in chaotic double-well potentials is studied in detail through the distribution of level splittings. The mean level splitting is found to have oscillations as a function of energy, as expected…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-08-14 W. E. Bies , L. Kaplan , E. J. Heller

An analytic theory is developed for the density of states oscillations in quantum wells in a magnetic field which is tilted with respect to the barrier planes. The main oscillations are found to come from the simplest one or two-bounce…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 E. E. Narimanov , A. D. Stone

It is shown that tunnelling splittings in ergodic double wells and resonant widths in ergodic metastable wells can be approximated as easily-calculated matrix elements involving the wavefunction in the neighbourhood of a certain real orbit.…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Stephen C. Creagh , Niall D. Whelan

We develop a statistical theory of waveform shaping of incident waves that aim to efficiently deliver energy at weakly lossy targets which are embedded inside chaotic enclosures. Our approach utilizes the universal features of chaotic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-07-25 Huanan Li , Suwun Suwunnarat , Tsampikos Kottos

The application of random matrix theory to scattering requires introduction of system-specific information. This paper shows that the average impedance matrix, which characterizes such system-specific properties, can be semiclassically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-02-03 Jen-Hao Yeh , James A. Hart , Elliott Bradshaw , Thomas M. Antonsen , Edward Ott , Steven M. Anlage

We investigate the structure of eigenstates in systems with a mixed phase space in terms of their projection onto individual regular tori. Depending on dynamical tunneling rates and the Heisenberg time, regular states disappear and chaotic…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-06-14 Arnd Bäcker , Roland Ketzmerick , Alejandro G. Monastra

We study quantum-mechanical tunneling in mixed dynamical systems between symmetry-related phase space tori separated by a chaotic layer. Considering e.g. the annular billiard we decompose tunneling-related energy splittings and shifts into…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-30 Steffen D. Frischat , Eyal Doron

The statistics of the resonance widths and the behavior of the survival probability is studied in a particular model of quantum chaotic scattering (a particle in a periodic potential subject to static and time-periodic forces) introduced…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Glueck , A. R. Kolovsky , H. J. Korsch

A simple example of quantum transport in a classically chaotic system is studied. It consists in a single state lying on a regular island (a stable primary resonance island) which may tunnel into a chaotic sea and further escape to infinity…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-30 Jakub Zakrzewski , Dominique Delande , Andreas Buchleitner

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

Analytical expressions for the width and conductance peak distributions of irregularly shaped quantum dots in the Coulomb blockade regime are presented in the limits of conserved and broken time-reversal symmetry. The results are obtained…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Y. Alhassid , C. H. Lewenkopf

We develop a quantitative semiclassical formula for the resonant tunneling current through a quantum well in a tilted magnetic field. It is shown that the current depends only on periodic orbits within the quantum well. The theory explains…

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

We study the statistical properties of the time delay matrix $Q$ in the context of quantum transport through a chaotic cavity, in the absence of time-reversal invariance. First, we approach the problem from the point of view of random…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-07-23 Marcel Novaes

The probability distribution of the proper delay times during scattering on a chaotic system is derived in the framework of the random matrix approach and the supersymmetry method. The result obtained is valid for an arbitrary number of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Hans-Juergen Sommers , Dmitry V. Savin , Valentin V. Sokolov