An exactly solvable model for the integrability-chaos transition in rough quantum billiards
| Title | An exactly solvable model for the integrability-chaos transition in rough quantum billiards |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2012 |
| Authors | Olshanii, M., Jacobs K., Rigol M., Dunjko V., Kennard H., and Yurovsky V. A. |
| Journal | Nature Communications |
| Volume | 3 |
| Pagination | 641 |
| Abstract | A central question of dynamics, largely open in the quantum case, is to what extent it erases a system's memory of its initial properties. Here we present a simple statistically solvable quantum model describing this memory loss across an integrability–chaos transition under a perturbation obeying no selection rules. From the perspective of quantum localization–delocalization on the lattice of quantum numbers, we are dealing with a situation where every lattice site is coupled to every other site with the same strength, on average. The model also rigorously justifies a similar set of relationships, recently proposed in the context of two short-range-interacting ultracold atoms in a harmonic waveguide. Application of our model to an ensemble of uncorrelated impurities on a rectangular lattice gives good agreement with ab initio numerics. |
| URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1653 |
| DOI | 10.1038/ncomms1653 |