Vibrating quantum billiards on Riemannian manifolds

Details Vibrating quantum billiards on Riemannian manifolds Vibrating quantum billiards on Riemannian manifolds

2001-07-19

arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0107045v2

Nonlinear Sciences

Chaotic Dynamics

23 pages, 6 figures, a few typos corrected. To appear in International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos (9/01)

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Quantum billiards provide an excellent forum for the analysis of quantum chaos. Toward this end, we consider quantum billiards with time-varying surfaces, which provide an important example of quantum chaos that does not require the semiclassical ($\hbar \longrightarrow 0$) or high quantum-number limits. We analyze vibrating quantum billiards using the framework of Riemannian geometry. First, we derive a theorem detailing necessary conditions for the existence of chaos in vibrating quantum billiards on Riemannian manifolds. Numerical observations suggest that these conditions are also sufficient. We prove the aforementioned theorem in full generality for one degree-of-freedom boundary vibrations and briefly discuss a generalization to billiards with two or more degrees-of-vibrations. The requisite conditions are direct consequences of the separability of the Helmholtz equation in a given orthogonal coordinate frame, and they arise from orthogonality relations satisfied by solutions of the Helmholtz equation. We then state and prove a second theorem that provides a general form for the coupled ordinary differential equations that describe quantum billiards with one degree-of-vibration boundaries. This set of equations may be used to illustrate KAM theory and also provides a simple example of semiquantum chaos. Moreover, vibrating quantum billiards may be used as models for quantum-well nanostructures, so this study has both theoretical and practical applications.

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