Citation:
Heller, E.J., O'Connor, P.W. & Gehlen, J.N. Eigenfunctions and periodic orbits in classically chaotic systems: Order in chaos?. AIP Conference Proceedings 162, 43–59 (1987).
Abstract:
We study the quantum mechanics of a Hamiltonian system which is classically chaotic: the stadium billiard. We have examined many of the eigenstates of the stadium, up to about the 10,000th. Complex periodic orbits play an active role in shaping the eigenstates.