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Quantum Mechanics of a Rotating Billiard

Chaotic Dynamics 2014-06-13 v1 Quantum Physics

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, λ=2E/ω2\lambda = 2E/\omega^{2} where E is the energy of the particle inside the billiard and ω\omega 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 λ\lambda 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 λ\lambda. The wavefunction statistics however show breakdown of time-reversal symmetry as λ\lambda decreases.

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@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}
}
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