Quantum Mechanics of a Rotating Billiard
Abstract
Integrability of a square billiard is spontaneously broken as it rotates about one of its corners. The system becomes quasi-integrable where the invariant tori are broken with respect to a certain parameter, where E is the energy of the particle inside the billiard and is the angular frequency of rotation of billiard. We study the system classically and quantum mechanically in view of obtaining a correspondence in the two descriptions. Classical phase space in Poincar\'{e} surface of section shows transition from regular to chaotic motion as the parameter is decreased. In the Quantum counterpart, the spectral statistics shows a transition from Poisson to Wigner distribution as the system turns chaotic with decrease in . The wavefunction statistics however show breakdown of time-reversal symmetry as decreases.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1406.3138,
title = {Quantum Mechanics of a Rotating Billiard},
author = {Nandan Jha and Sudhir R. Jain},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.3138},
year = {2014}
}