Semiclassical construction of chaotic eigenstates

Publication information:

Tomsovic, S. Semiclassical construction of chaotic eigenstates. Physical review letters 70, 1405 (1993).

Abstract

It has been a long-standing problem to understand the eigenfunctions of a system whose classical analog is strongly chaotic. We show that in some cases the eigenfunctions can be constructed by purely semiclassical calculations.