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We discuss consequences of a recent observation that the sequence of periodic orbits in a chaotic billiard behaves like a poissonian stochastic process on small scales. This enables the semiclassical form factor $K_{sc}(\tau)$ to agree with…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 Per Dahlqvist

We explore the critical parameters responsible for the transition from integrability to chaos in a family of billiards combining elliptical and oval deformations. Unlike standard oval billiards, where a known critical parameter governs the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-04 Anne Kétri P. da Fonseca , Joelson D. V. Hermes , Edson D. Leonel

The purpose of this paper is to study the dynamics of a square billiard with a non-standard reflection law such that the angle of reflection of the particle is a linear contraction of the angle of incidence. We present numerical and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Gianluigi Del Magno , João Lopes Dias , Pedro Duarte , José Pedro Gaivão , Diogo Pinheiro

We resolve a long-standing riddle in quantum chaos, posed by certain fully chaotic billiards with constant negative curvature whose periodic orbits are highly degenerate in length. Depending on the boundary conditions for the quantum wave…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-18 Petr Braun , Fritz Haake

Semiconductor billiards are often considered as ideal systems for studying dynamical chaos in the quantum mechanical limit. In the traditional picture, once the electron's mean free path, as determined by the mobility, becomes larger than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-13 A. P. Micolich , A. M. See , B. C. Scannell , C. A. Marlow , T. P. Martin , I. Pilgrim , A. R. Hamilton , H. Linke , R. P. Taylor

In order to verify Percival's conjecture [J. Phys. B 6,L229 (1973)] we study a planar billiard in its classical and quantum versions. We provide an evaluation of the nearest-neighbor level-spacing distribution for the Cassini oval billiard,…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Gabriel Carlo , Eduardo Vergini , Alejandro Fendrik

Statistical properties of billiards with diffusive boundary scattering are investigated by means of the supersymmetric sigma-model in a formulation appropriate for chaotic ballistic systems. We study level statistics, parametric level…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Ya. M. Blanter , A. D. Mirlin , B. A. Muzykantskii

The effect of small forced symmetry breaking on the dynamics near a structurally stable heteroclinic cycle connecting two equilibria and a periodic orbit is investigated. This type of system is known to exhibit complicated, possibly chaotic…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-05-07 Vivien Kirk , Alastair M. Rucklidge

We characterize quantum dynamics in triangular billiards in terms of five properties: (1) the level spacing ratio (LSR), (2) spectral complexity (SC), (3) Lanczos coefficient variance, (4) energy eigenstate localisation in the Krylov basis,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-17 Vijay Balasubramanian , Rathindra Nath Das , Johanna Erdmenger , Zhuo-Yu Xian

The Poincar\'e problem is a model of two-dimensional internal waves in stable-stratified fluid. The chess billiard flow, a variation of a typical billiard flow, drives the formation behind and describes the evolution of these internal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Sally Zhu , Zhenhao Li

We investigate symmetry breaking in a time-dependent billiard that undergoes a continuous phase transition when dissipation is introduced. The system presents unlimited velocity, and thus energy growth for the conservative dynamics. When…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-18 Anne Kétri Pasquinelli da Fonseca , Edson Denis Leonel

Nelson's stochastic quantum mechanics provides an ideal arena to test how the Born rule is established from an initial probability distribution that is not identical to the square modulus of the wave function. Here, we investigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-10 Vincent Hardel , Paul-Antoine Hervieux , Giovanni Manfredi

Recent works have established universal entanglement properties and demonstrated validity of single-particle eigenstate thermalization in quantum-chaotic quadratic Hamiltonians. However, a common property of all quantum-chaotic quadratic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-15 Iris Ulčakar , Lev Vidmar

We investigate the two-point correlations in the band spectra of spatially periodic systems that exhibit chaotic diffusion in the classical limit. By including level pairs pertaining to non-identical quasimomenta, we define form factors…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-30 T. Dittrich , B. Mehlig , H. Schanz , U. Smilansky

We study classical and quantum dynamics of two spinless particles confined in a quantum wire with repulsive or attractive Coulomb interaction. The interaction induces irregular dynamics in classical mechanics, which reflects on the quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Shumpei Masuda , Shin-ichi Sawada , Yasushi Shimizu

We study the dielectric annular billiard as a quantum chaotic model of a micro-optical resonator. It differs from conventional billiards with hard-wall boundary conditions in that it is partially open and composed of two dielectric media…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-07 Martina Hentschel , Klaus Richter

Mesoscopic devices, with system sizes in the range of several to several dozens wavelengths, represent paradigmatic model systems for the observation of quantum chaotic behaviour based on semiclassical concepts. Those electronic and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Martina Hentschel

As first noted by Rafael Sorkin, there is a limit to quantum interference. The interference pattern formed in a multi-slit experiment is a function of the interference patterns formed between pairs of slits, there are no genuinely new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-14 Howard Barnum , Ciarán M. Lee , Carlo Maria Scandolo , John H. Selby

We study analytically and numerically the classical diffusive process which takes place in a chaotic billiard. This allows to estimate the conditions under which the statistical properties of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions can be described…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Fausto Borgonovi , Giulio Casati , Baowen Li

We present realistic simulations of quantum confinement effects in ballistic graphene quantum dots with linear dimensions of 10 to 40 nm. We determine wavefunctions and energy level statistics in the presence of disorder resulting from edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-18 F. Libisch , C. Stampfer , J. Burgdörfer