https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2008-00852-2
The scar mechanism revisited
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Departamento de Química, and Instituto Mixto de Ciencias Matemáticas CSIC-UAM-UC3M-UCM, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, CANTOBLANCO, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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Departamento de Física “J.J. Giambiagi”, FCEN, UBA, Pabellón 1, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Grupo de Sistemas Complejos and Departamento de Física, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Agrónomos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Corresponding authors: f.borondo@uam.es wisniacki@df.uba.ar eduardogerman.vergini@upm.es rosamaria.benito@upm.es
Unstable periodic orbits are known to originate scars on some eigen-functions of classically chaotic systems through recurrences causing that some part of an initial distribution of quantum probability in its vicinity returns periodically close to the initial point. In the energy domain, these recurrences are seen to accumulate quantum density along the orbit by a constructive interference mechanism when the appropriate quantization (on the action of the scarring orbit) is fulfilled. Other quantized phase space circuits, such as those defined by homoclinic tori, are also important in the coherent transport of quantum density in chaotic systems. The relationship of this secondary quantum transport mechanism with the standard mechanism for scarring is here discussed and analyzed.
© EDP Sciences, Springer-Verlag, 2008
