arXiv · 2108.10463
Semiclassical measures for higher dimensional quantum cat maps
Abstract
Consider a quantum cat map $M$ associated to a matrix $A\in\mathop{\mathrm{Sp}}(2n,\mathbb Z)$, which is a common toy model in quantum chaos. We show that the mass of eigenfunctions of $M$ on any nonempty open set in the position-frequency space satisfies a lower bound which is uniform in the semiclassical limit, under two assumptions: (1) there is a unique simple eigenvalue of $A$ of largest absolute value and (2) the characteristic polynomial of $A$ is irreducible over the rationals. This is similar to previous work [arXiv:1705.05019], [arXiv:1906.08923] on negatively curved surfaces and [arXiv:2103.06633] on quantum cat maps with $n=1$, but this paper gives the first results of this type which apply in any dimension. When condition (2) fails we provide a weaker version of the result and discuss relations to existing counterexamples. We also obtain corresponding statements regarding semiclassical measures and damped quantum cat maps.
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Semyon Dyatlov, Malo Jézéquel. 2021-08-24. Semiclassical measures for higher dimensional quantum cat maps. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-023-01309-x
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