1999/05/11 by Arnd Bäcker, Roman Schubert
Physics and Astronomy · #chao-dyn #nlin.CD #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0305-4470/32/26/301
published as J. Phys. A 32 (1999) 4795-4815 · 30 pages. The figures are included in low resolution only. For a version with figures in high resolution see http://www.physik.uni-ulm.de/theo/qc/ulm-tp/tp99-2.html
arxiv created 1999/05/11 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
We study eigenstates of chaotic billiards in the momentum representation and propose the radially integrated momentum distribution as useful measure to detect localization effects. For the momentum distribution, the radially integrated momentum distribution, and the angular integrated momentum distribution explicit formulae in terms of the normal derivative along the billiard boundary are derived. We present a detailed numerical study for the stadium and the cardioid billiard, which shows in several cases that the radially integrated momentum distribution is a good indicator of localized eigenstates, such as scars, or bouncing ball modes. We also find examples, where the localization is more strongly pronounced in position space than in momentum space, which we discuss in detail. Finally applications and generalizations are discussed.