arXiv · nlin/0303051
Spectral form factor of hyperbolic systems: leading off-diagonal approximation
Abstract
The spectral fluctuations of a quantum Hamiltonian system with time-reversal symmetry are studied in the semiclassical limit by using periodic-orbit theory. It is found that, if long periodic orbits are hyperbolic and uniformly distributed in phase space, the spectral form factor agrees with the GOE prediction of random-matrix theory up to second order included in the time measured in units of the Heisenberg time (leading off-diagonal approximation). Our approach is based on the mechanism of periodic-orbit correlations discovered recently by Sieber and Richter (Phys. Scr. T 90, 128, 2001). By reformulating the theory of these authors in phase space, their result on the free motion on a Riemann surface with constant negative curvature is extended to general Hamiltonian hyperbolic systems with two degrees of freedom.
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Dominique Spehner. 2003-06-06. Spectral form factor of hyperbolic systems: leading off-diagonal approximation. https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470%2F36%2F26%2F304
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