Published January 19, 2007
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Journal article
SLE description of the nodal lines of random wavefunctions
Creators
- 1. CNRS, Universite Paris-Sud, UMR 8626, Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et Modeles Statistiques, 91405 Orsay (France)
Description
The nodal lines of random wavefunctions are investigated. We demonstrate numerically that they are well approximated by the so-called SLE6 curves which describe the continuum limit of the percolation cluster boundaries. This result gives additional support to the recent conjecture that the nodal domains of random (and chaotic) wavefunctions in the semi-classical limit are adequately described by the critical percolation theory. It is also shown that using the dipolar variant of SLE reduces significantly finite size effects
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1088/1751-8113/40/3/003;
- PII
- S1751-8113(07)32270-1;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Physics. A, Mathematical and Theoretical (Online)
- Journal Volume
- 40
- Journal Issue
- 3
- Journal Page Range
- p. 381-395
- ISSN
- 1751-8121
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 38072880
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CHAOS THEORY; RANDOMNESS; WAVE FUNCTIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICS