Spectral statistics of 'cellular' billiards
Description
For a bounded domain Ω0 subset of R2 whose boundary contains a number of flat pieces Γi, i = 1, ..., l we consider a family of non-symmetric billiards Ω constructed by patching several copies of Ω0 along Γis. It is demonstrated that the length spectrum of the periodic orbits in Ω is degenerate with the multiplicities determined by a matrix group G. We study the energy spectrum of the corresponding quantum billiard problem in Ω and show that it can be split into a number of uncorrelated subspectra corresponding to a set of irreducible representations α of G. Assuming that the classical dynamics in Ω0 are chaotic, we derive a semiclassical trace formula for each spectral component and show that their energy level statistics are the same as in standard random matrix ensembles. Depending on whether α is real, pseudo-real or complex, the spectrum has either Gaussian orthogonal, Gaussian symplectic or Gaussian unitary types of statistics, respectively
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0951-7715/24/6/003Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1088/0951-7715/24/6/003;
- PII
- S0951-7715(11)73482-X;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nonlinearity (Print)
- Journal Volume
- 24
- Journal Issue
- 6
- Journal Page Range
- p. 1743-1757
- ISSN
- 0951-7715
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 45037900
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CHAOS THEORY; ENERGY LEVELS; ENERGY SPECTRA; GAUSS FUNCTION; IRREDUCIBLE REPRESENTATIONS; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; MATRICES; MULTIPLICITY; ORBITS; PERIODICITY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RANDOMNESS; SEMICLASSICAL APPROXIMATION; STATISTICS
- Descriptors DEC
- APPROXIMATIONS; CALCULATION METHODS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICS; MECHANICS; SPECTRA; VARIATIONS