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Phys. Rev. E 51, 6323–6326 (1995)

Fractal potentials from energy levels

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A. Ramani
Centre de Physique Theorique, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS UPR 14, 91128 Palaiseau, France

B. Grammaticos
Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire, Université Paris VII, Tour 24-14, Cinquième Étage, 75251 Paris, France

E. Caurier
Centre de Recherches Nucléaires et Université Louis Pasteur, Groupe de Physique Nucléaire Théorique, Boîte Postale 20, 67027 Strasbourg, France

Received 1 March 1994; published in the issue dated June 1995

We analyze the reconstruction by Wu and Sprung [Phys. Rev. E 48, 2595 (1993)] of a fractal one-dimensional potential, the quantum spectrum of which reproduces the first 500 nontrivial zeros of the Riemann ζ function. Our construction is based on a spectrum with Gaussian unitary ensemble statistics as far as the nearest-neighbor spacing distribution is concerned. Our results show that a reliable estimate of the fractal dimension of the potential necessitates a very large number of levels.

© 1995 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.51.6323
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevE.51.6323
PACS:
05.40.+j

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Original Article: Hua Wu and D. W. Sprung, Riemann zeros and a fractal potential, Phys. Rev. E 48, 2595 (1993).