Energy fluctuations of pseudointegrable systems with growing surface roughness

Stefanie Russ
Phys. Rev. E 64, 056240 – Published 30 October 2001
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Abstract

The eigenfrequencies of two-dimensional systems with fractal boundaries and with nonscaling rough boundaries are calculated numerically by the Lanczos algorithm and analyzed by means of level statistics. The systems are pseudointegrable and the fluctuations of their eigenvalue spectra show a global statistical behavior between the Poisson and the Wigner distributions. With increasing irregularity of the boundary, the systems approach the Wigner limit and the results seem to depend only on the genus number of the geometry and not on details, such as the asymptotic shape of the geometry, the type of roughness (scaling or nonscaling), and the boundary conditions (Neumann or Dirichlet). No transition between localized and extended states is found in fractal drums.

  • Received 10 June 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.64.056240

©2001 American Physical Society

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Stefanie Russ

  • Institut für Theoretische Physik III, Universität Giessen, D-35392 Giessen, Germany

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Vol. 64, Iss. 5 — November 2001

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