Geometrical theory of diffraction and spectral statistics

Abstract

We investigate the influence of diffraction on the statistics of energy levels in quantum systems with a chaotic classical limit. By applying the geometrical theory of diffraction we show that diffraction on singularities of the potential can lead to modifications in semiclassical approximations for spectral statistics that persist in the semiclassical limit $\hslash \to 0$. This result is obtained by deriving a classical sum rule for trajectories that connect two points in coordinate space.

14 pages, no figure, to appear in J. Phys. A

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