title: Classical and quantum chaos in a circular billiard with a straight cut.
abstract: We study classical and quantum dynamics of a particle in a circular billiard with a straight cut. Classically, this system can be integrable, nonintegrable with soft chaos, or nonintegrable with hard chaos as we vary the size of the cut. We plot Poincaré surfaces of section to study chaos. Quantum mechanically, we look at Husimi plots, and also use the quantum web, the technique primarily used in spin systems so far, to try to see differences in quantum manifestations of soft and hard chaos.
authors.affiliation: Center for Studies in Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ree
authors.forename: L E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Reichl