The distribution of localization measures of chaotic eigenstates in the stadium billiard

TL;DR

This paper investigates the distribution of localization measures of chaotic eigenstates in the stadium billiard, showing it is well approximated by a beta distribution and analyzing how it depends on system parameters and spectral statistics.

Contribution

The study provides extensive numerical analysis of localization measure distributions in stadium billiards, linking them to system parameters and spectral statistics, and extends previous work on spectral properties.

Findings

Distribution of localization measures approximated by beta distribution

Standard deviation of measures depends on the parameter alpha

Relation between localization measures and spectral statistics analyzed

Abstract

The localization measures $A$ (based on the information entropy) of localized chaotic eigenstates in the Poincar\'e-Husimi representation have a distribution on a compact interval $[0,A_0]$, which is well approximated by the {\em beta distribution}, based on our extensive numerical calculations. The system under study is the Bunimovich' stadium billiard, which is a classically ergodic system, also fully chaotic (positive Lyapunov exponent), but in the regime of a slightly distorted circle billiard (small shape parameter $\varepsilon$) the diffusion in the momentum space is very slow. The parameter $\alpha=t_H/t_T$, where $t_H$ and $t_T$ are the Heisenberg time and the classical transport time (diffusion time), respectively, is the important control parameter of the system, as in all quantum systems with the discrete energy spectrum. The measures $A$ and their distributions have been calculated for a large number of $\varepsilon$ and eigenenergies. The dependence of the standard deviation $\sigma$ on $\alpha$ is analyzed, as well as on the spectral parameter $\beta$ (level repulsion exponent of the relevant Brody level spacing distribution). The paper is a continuation of our recent paper (B. Batisti\'c, \v{C}. Lozej and M. Robnik, Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems {\bf 21}, 225 (2018)), where the spectral statistics and validity of the Brody level spacing distribution has been studied for the same system, namely the dependence of $\beta$ and of the mean value $<A>$ on $\alpha$.