title: Quantum mushroom billiards.
abstract: We report the first large-scale statistical study of very high-lying eigenmodes (quantum states) of the mushroom billiard proposed by L. A. Bunimovich [Chaos 11, 802 (2001)]. The phase space of this mixed system is unusual in that it has a single regular region and a single chaotic region, and no KAM hierarchy. We verify Percival's conjecture to high accuracy (1.7%). We propose a model for dynamical tunneling and show that it predicts well the chaotic components of predominantly regular modes. Our model explains our observed density of such superpositions dying as E(-1/3) (E is the eigenvalue). We compare eigenvalue spacing distributions against Random Matrix Theory expectations, using 16,000 odd modes (an order of magnitude more than any existing study). We outline new variants of mesh-free boundary collocation methods which enable us to achieve high accuracy and high mode numbers (approximately 10(5)) orders of magnitude faster than with competing methods.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA. ahb@math.dartmouth.edu
authors.forename: Alex H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Barnett
authors.forename: Timo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Betcke
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D008432:Mathematical Computing; D008433:Mathematics; D015233:Models, Statistical; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D010825:Physics / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013269:Stochastic Processes