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The semiclassical origin of curvature effects in universal spectral statistics

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Daniel Waltner1, Stefan Heusler2, Juan Diego Urbina1 and Klaus Richter1

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We consider the energy-averaged two-point correlator of spectral determinants and calculate contributions beyond the diagonal approximation using semiclassical methods. Evaluating the contributions originating from pseudo-orbit correlations in the same way as in Heusler et al (2007 Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 044103) we find a discrepancy between the semiclassical and the random matrix theory result. A complementary analysis based on a field-theoretical approach shows that the additional terms occurring in semiclassics are canceled in field theory by so-called curvature effects. We give the semiclassical interpretation of the curvature effects in terms of contributions from multiple traversals of periodic orbits around shorter periodic orbits and discuss the consistency of our results with previous approaches.


PACS

03.65.Sq Semiclassical theories and applications

05.40.-a Fluctuation phenomena, random processes, noise, and Brownian motion

02.50.-r Probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics

02.10.Yn Matrix theory

05.45.Mt Quantum chaos; semiclassical methods

MSC

81Q20 Semiclassical techniques including WKB and Maslov methods

81Q50 Quantum chaos (See also 37Dxx)

15A52 Random matrices

Subjects

Mathematical physics

Computational physics

Statistical physics and nonlinear systems

Quantum information and quantum mechanics

Dates

Issue 29 (24 July 2009)

Received 25 March 2009, in final form 12 May 2009

Published 6 July 2009



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