Phys. Rev. Lett. 52, 1 - 4 (1984)Characterization of Chaotic Quantum Spectra and Universality of Level Fluctuation Laws |
PRL Celebrates 50 Years
This Week's Milestone Letters are from 1984: |
O. Bohigas, M. J. Giannoni, and C. Schmit
Division de Physique Théorique, Institut de Physique Nucléaire, F-91406 Orsay Cedex, France
Received 2 August 1983
It is found that the level fluctuations of the quantum Sinai's billiard are consistent with the predictions of the Gaussian orthogonal ensemble of random matrices. This reinforces the belief that level fluctuation laws are universal.
©1983 The American Physical Society
URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v52/p1
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.52.1
PACS: 05.40.+j, 03.65.Bz
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