Nonlinear Sciences – Chaotic Dynamics
Scientific paper
2000-01-19
Physica E 9 (2001) 523-530
Nonlinear Sciences
Chaotic Dynamics
8 pages, 3 figures. Contribution to the conference on Dynamics of Complex Systems, Dresden (1999)
Scientific paper
10.1016/S1386-9477(00)00257-5
We study the statistical properties of the scattering matrix associated with generic quantum graphs. The scattering matrix is the quantum analogue of the classical evolution operator on the graph. For the energy-averaged spectral form factor of the scattering matrix we have recently derived an exact combinatorial expression. It is based on a sum over families of periodic orbits which so far could only be performed in special graphs. Here we present a simple algorithm implementing this summation for any graph. Our results are in excellent agreement with direct numerical simulations for various graphs. Moreover we extend our previous notion of an ensemble of graphs by considering ensemble averages over random boundary conditions imposed at the vertices. We show numerically that the corresponding form factor follows the predictions of random-matrix theory when the number of vertices is large---even when all bond lengths are degenerate. The corresponding combinatorial sum has a structure similar to the one obtained previously by performing an energy average under the assumption of incommensurate bond lengths.
Kottos Tsampikos
Schanz Holger
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