Numerical investigation of regimes of Wigner and Shnirelman ergodicity in rough billiards

Citation
Y. Hlushchuk et al., Numerical investigation of regimes of Wigner and Shnirelman ergodicity in rough billiards, PHYS SCR, 64(3), 2001, pp. 192-196
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICA SCRIPTA
ISSN journal
02811847 → ACNP
Volume
64
Issue
3
Year of publication
2001
Pages
192 - 196
Database
ISI
SICI code
0281-1847(200109)64:3<192:NIOROW>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
We study numerically regimes of Wigner and Shnirelman ergodicity [K. M. Fra hm and D. L Shepelyansky, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79,1833 (1997)] in rough half-ci rcular billiards. We show that in the regime of Wigner ergodicity eigenstat es are extended over the whole energy surface but have a strongly peaked no nergodic structure. In the regime of Shnirelman ergodicity the eigenstates are ergodically distributed along the energy surface. The Shannon width of the eigenstate distributions is calculated to estimate quantitatively their spreads. We show that in both regimes the amplitude distribution P(psi) is well approximated by a Gaussian distribution.