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Phys. Rev. E 59, 4071–4074 (1999)

Level fluctuations in quantum systems with multifractal eigenstates

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J. X. Zhong* and T. Geisel
Max-Planck-Institut für Strömungsforschung und Institute für Nichtlineare Dynamik der Universität Göttingen, Bunsenstrasse 10, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany
Department of Physics, Xiangtan University, Hunan 411105, China

Received 20 May 1998; revised 4 December 1998; published in the issue dated April 1999

The relationship between universality of level fluctuation laws and multifractality of eigenstates is studied by analyzing energy spectra of tight-binding models of quantum billiards with multifractal eigenstates. We show that level fluctuations in our models are well described by the universal statistical laws such as Poisson statistics for integrable systems and statistics for the Gaussian orthogonal random matrix ensemble as long as the energy levels are located in bandlike spectra, which indicates that level statistics is irrelative to the multifractal properties of eigenstates. Our results are further confirmed by statistical properties of energy spectra in tight-binding models of two-dimensional quasicrystals.

© 1999 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.59.4071
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevE.59.4071
PACS:
05.45.-a, 71.23.Ft, 71.30.+h, 72.15.Rn

*Present address: Department of Physics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996 and Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6032.