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# Emergence of Quantum Ergodicity in Rough Billiards

Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novo-Nikolaevsk, Novosibirsk, Russia
(Impact Factor: 7.73). 02/1997; 79(10). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.1833
Source: arXiv

ABSTRACT By analytical mapping of the eigenvalue problem in rough billiards on to a band random matrix model a new regime of Wigner ergodicity is found. There the eigenstates are extended over the whole energy surface but have a strongly peaked structure. The results of numerical simulations and implications for level statistics are also discussed. Comment: revtex, 4 pages, 4 figures

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