Semiclassical calculation of scars for a smooth potential
- 2 August 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 71 (5) , 662-665
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.71.662
Abstract
Bogomolny’s formula for energy-smoothed scars is applied to a nonspecific, nonscalable Hamiltonian, a two-dimensional anharmonic oscillator. The semiclassical theory reproduces well the exact quantal results over a large spatial and energy range.Keywords
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