Berry's random wave conjecture for chaotic billiards
Berry's random wave conjecture for chaotic billiards
Let be a chaotic billiard, so its billiard flow is ergodic and has positive topological entropy. Let be an orthonormal sequence of eigenfunctions, and let denote the accumulation-point set of the associated local measures on the space
Let be the Gaussian probability measure on associated with the random monochromatic wave. Berry's random wave conjecture. There exists a subsequence of positive integers with full density such that
This conjecture predicts the typical Planck-scale structure of high-energy eigenfunctions in chaotic systems. It is a challenging open problem in quantum chaos; no counterexamples are known, but rigorous local-limit results are essentially restricted to the flat two-torus.
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Primary source
Alberto Enciso, Alba Garcia-Ruiz and Daniel Peralta-Salas, “Local limits of high energy eigenfunctions on integrable billiards”, arXiv:2502.01291 (2025).
Additional references
3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1810.05601, arXiv:1712.03431.
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