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Phys. Rev. E 60, 408–415 (1999)

Distribution of Husimi zeros in polygonal billiards

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Debabrata Biswas*
Theoretical Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400 085, India

Sudeshna Sinha
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, CIT Campus, Taramani, Chennai 600 113, India

Received 15 July 1998; revised 4 January 1999; published in the issue dated July 1999

The zeros of the Husimi function provide a minimal description of individual quantum eigenstates and their distribution is of considerable interest. We provide here a numerical study for pseudointegrable billiards which suggests that the zeros tend to diffuse over phase space in a manner reminiscent of chaotic systems but nevertheless contain a subtle signature of pseudointegrability. We also find that the zeros depend sensitively on the position and momentum uncertainties (Δq and Δp, respectively) with the classical correspondence best when Δq=Δp=√ħ/2. Finally, short-range correlations seem to be well described by the Ginibre ensemble of complex matrices.

© 1999 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.60.408
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevE.60.408
PACS:
05.45.-a, 03.65.Sq

*Electronic address: dbiswas@apsara.barc.ernet.in

Electronic address: sudeshna@imsc.ernet.in