On the Accuracy of the Semiclassical Trace Formula

Details On the Accuracy of the Semiclassical Trace Formula On the Accuracy of the Semiclassical Trace Formula

1998-01-16

arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9801025v2

J. Phys. A 31 (1998) 6253-6277

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

LaTeX, 31 pages, 14 figures, final version (minor changes)

Scientific paper

10.1088/0305-4470/31/29/016

The semiclassical trace formula provides the basic construction from which one derives the semiclassical approximation for the spectrum of quantum systems which are chaotic in the classical limit. When the dimensionality of the system increases, the mean level spacing decreases as $\hbar^d$, while the semiclassical approximation is commonly believed to provide an accuracy of order $\hbar^2$, independently of d. If this were true, the semiclassical trace formula would be limited to systems in d <= 2 only. In the present work we set about to define proper measures of the semiclassical spectral accuracy, and to propose theoretical and numerical evidence to the effect that the semiclassical accuracy, measured in units of the mean level spacing, depends only weakly (if at all) on the dimensionality. Detailed and thorough numerical tests were performed for the Sinai billiard in 2 and 3 dimensions, substantiating the theoretical arguments.

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