Quantum Dynamical Tunneling Breaks Classical Conserved Quantities

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Hauptverfasser: Kong, Lingchii, Gong, Zongping, Wu, Biao
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author Kong, Lingchii
Gong, Zongping
Wu, Biao
author_facet Kong, Lingchii
Gong, Zongping
Wu, Biao
contents We discover that quantum dynamical tunneling, occurring between phase space regions in a classically forbidden way, can break conserved quantities in pseudointegrable systems. We rigorously prove that a conserved quantity in a class of typical pseudointegrable systems can be broken quantum mechanically. We then numerically compute the uncertainties of this broken conserved quantity, which remain non-zero for up to $10^5$ eigenstates and exhibit universal distributions similar to energy level statistics. Furthermore, all the eigenstates with large uncertainties show the superpositions of regular orbits with different values of the conserved quantity, showing definitive manifestation of dynamical tunneling. A random matrix model is constructed to successfully reproduce the level statistics in pseudointegrable systems.
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spellingShingle Quantum Dynamical Tunneling Breaks Classical Conserved Quantities
Kong, Lingchii
Gong, Zongping
Wu, Biao
Chaotic Dynamics
Statistical Mechanics
Quantum Physics
We discover that quantum dynamical tunneling, occurring between phase space regions in a classically forbidden way, can break conserved quantities in pseudointegrable systems. We rigorously prove that a conserved quantity in a class of typical pseudointegrable systems can be broken quantum mechanically. We then numerically compute the uncertainties of this broken conserved quantity, which remain non-zero for up to $10^5$ eigenstates and exhibit universal distributions similar to energy level statistics. Furthermore, all the eigenstates with large uncertainties show the superpositions of regular orbits with different values of the conserved quantity, showing definitive manifestation of dynamical tunneling. A random matrix model is constructed to successfully reproduce the level statistics in pseudointegrable systems.
title Quantum Dynamical Tunneling Breaks Classical Conserved Quantities
topic Chaotic Dynamics
Statistical Mechanics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06474