Weak Quantum Ergodicity

Details Weak Quantum Ergodicity Weak Quantum Ergodicity

1998-09-25

arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9810002v1

Physica D 121, 1 (1998)

Nonlinear Sciences

Chaotic Dynamics

12 pages, 11 figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0167-2789(98)00156-0

We examine the consequences of classical ergodicity for the localization properties of individual quantum eigenstates in the classical limit. We note that the well known Schnirelman result is a weaker form of quantum ergodicity than the one implied by random matrix theory. This suggests the possibility of systems with non-gaussian random eigenstates which are nonetheless ergodic in the sense of Schnirelman and lead to ergodic transport in the classical limit. These we call "weakly quantum ergodic.'' Indeed for a class of "slow ergodic" classical systems, it is found that each eigenstate becomes localized to an ever decreasing fraction of the available state space, in the semiclassical limit. Nevertheless, each eigenstate in this limit covers phase space evenly on any classical scale, and long-time transport properties betwen individual quantum states remain ergodic due to the diffractive effects which dominate quantum phase space exploration.

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