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arXiv:nlin/0403018 · Physical Review Letters

Classical Projected Phase Space Density of Billiards and Its Relation to the Quantum Neumann Spectrum

Debabrata Biswas

Published Nov 10, 2004• 3 citations
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Abstract

A comparison of classical and quantum evolution usually involves a quasiprobability distribution as a quantum analogue of the classical phase space distribution. In an alternate approach that we adopt here, the classical density is projected on to the configuration space. We show that for billiards, the eigenfunctions of the coarse-grained projected classical evolution operator are identical to a first approximation to the quantum Neumann eigenfunctions. However, even though there exists a correspondence between the respective eigenvalues, their time evolutions differ. This is demonstrated numerically for the stadium and lemon-shaped billiards.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.93.204102

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