Classical and quantum chaos in bean- and peanut-shaped billiards

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Hauptverfasser: Das, Pranaya Pratik, Patra, Tanmayee, Ganguli, Biplab
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author Das, Pranaya Pratik
Patra, Tanmayee
Ganguli, Biplab
author_facet Das, Pranaya Pratik
Patra, Tanmayee
Ganguli, Biplab
contents The geometry of a billiard boundary fundamentally governs its dynamics, ranging from integrable to mixed and fully chaotic regimes. Bean- and peanut-shaped billiards have varying curvature with both focusing and defocusing walls without a neutral segments. Particle dynamics inside these billiards show a strong correlation between classical and quantum dynamics in the chaotic regime also. This fundamental observation comes from our study of classical tools like Lyapunov exponent, Poincaré sections, flow trajectories in phase space and quantum tools that includes both statistical and dynamical measures. Statistical indicators include nearest-neighbour spacing distributions, level-spacing ratios, and the spectral staircase function, while dynamical measures include out-of-time-order correlators and spectral complexity. The dynamics in both of these billiard systems also exhibit eigenfunction scarring, an unexpected phenomenon observed in chaotic systems. Overall, our results provide a unified perspective on billiard systems with non-uniform curvature.
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spellingShingle Classical and quantum chaos in bean- and peanut-shaped billiards
Das, Pranaya Pratik
Patra, Tanmayee
Ganguli, Biplab
Chaotic Dynamics
Computational Physics
Quantum Physics
The geometry of a billiard boundary fundamentally governs its dynamics, ranging from integrable to mixed and fully chaotic regimes. Bean- and peanut-shaped billiards have varying curvature with both focusing and defocusing walls without a neutral segments. Particle dynamics inside these billiards show a strong correlation between classical and quantum dynamics in the chaotic regime also. This fundamental observation comes from our study of classical tools like Lyapunov exponent, Poincaré sections, flow trajectories in phase space and quantum tools that includes both statistical and dynamical measures. Statistical indicators include nearest-neighbour spacing distributions, level-spacing ratios, and the spectral staircase function, while dynamical measures include out-of-time-order correlators and spectral complexity. The dynamics in both of these billiard systems also exhibit eigenfunction scarring, an unexpected phenomenon observed in chaotic systems. Overall, our results provide a unified perspective on billiard systems with non-uniform curvature.
title Classical and quantum chaos in bean- and peanut-shaped billiards
topic Chaotic Dynamics
Computational Physics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08839