Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1996-05-20
Physics
Condensed Matter
8 pages in RevTeX 3.0
Scientific paper
We show that the condition for the appearance of quantum chaos (Wigner-Dyson distribution of energy eigenvalues, gaussian-random energy eigenfunctions) in a dilute gas of many hard spheres is $\lambda \ll \ell$, where $\lambda$ is the wavelength of a typical particle and $\ell$ is the mean free path between collisions. For fermions with Fermi wavelength $\lambda_F \ll \ell$, this implies that all energy eigenstates, including the ground state, are chaotic. Physical implications are discussed.
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