Dynamical localization of chaotic eigenstates in the mixed-type systems: spectral statistics in a billiard system after separation of regular and chaotic eigenstates

Abstract

We study the quantum mechanics of a billiard (Robnik 1983 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 16 3971) in the regime of mixed-type classical phase space (the shape parameter λ = 0.15) at very high-lying eigenstates, starting at about 1.000.000th eigenstate and including the consecutive 587654 eigenstates. By calculating the normalized Poincaré–Husimi functions of the eigenstates and comparing them with the classical phase space structure, we introduce the overlap criterion which enables us to separate with great accuracy and reliability the regular and chaotic eigenstates, and the corresponding energies. The chaotic eigenstates appear all to be dynamically localized, meaning that they do not uniformly occupy the entire available chaotic classical phase space component, but are localized on a proper subset. We find with unprecedented precision and statistical significance that the level spacing distributions of the regular levels obey the Poisson statistics, and the chaotic ones obey the Brody statistics, as anticipated in a recent paper by Batistić and Robnik (2010 J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 43 215101), where the entire spectrum was found to obey the Berry–Robnik–Brody statistics. There are no effects of dynamical tunneling in this regime, due to the high energies, as they decay exponentially with the inverse effective Planck constant which is proportional to the square root of the energy.