Level and eigenfunction statistics in billiards with surface disorder

Ya. M. Blanter, A. D. Mirlin, and B. A. Muzykantskii
Phys. Rev. B 63, 235315 – Published 29 May 2001
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Abstract

Statistical properties of billiards with diffusive boundary scattering are investigated by means of the supersymmetric σ model in a formulation appropriate for chaotic ballistic systems. We study level statistics, parametric level statistics, and properties of electron wave functions. In the universal regime, our results reproduce conclusions of the random matrix theory, while beyond this regime we obtain a variety of system-specific results determined by the classical dynamics in the billiard. Most notably, we find that level correlations do not vanish at arbitrary separation between energy levels, or if measured at arbitrarily large difference of magnetic fields. Saturation of the level number variance indicates strong rigidity of the spectrum. To study spatial correlations of wave-function amplitudes, we reanalyze and refine derivation of the ballistic version of the σ model. This allows us to obtain a proper matching of universal short-scale correlations with system-specific ones.

  • Received 30 November 2000

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.63.235315

©2001 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Ya. M. Blanter1,2, A. D. Mirlin3,4,*, and B. A. Muzykantskii5

  • 1Département de Physique Théorique, Université de Genève, CH-1211 Genève 4, Switzerland
  • 2Department of Applied Physics and DIMES, Delft University of Technology, Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ Delft, The Netherlands
  • 3Institut für Nanotechnologie, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
  • 4Institut für Theorie der Kondensierten Materie, Universität Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
  • 5Department of Physics, University of Warwick, CV4 7AL Coventry, United Kingdom

  • *Also at St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, 188350 St. Petersburg, Russia.

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Vol. 63, Iss. 23 — 15 June 2001

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