.. _sphx_glr_api_gallery_semiclassical_scarring:

Quantum scars
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The stadium billiard's bouncing-ball scarred eigenstate family, the
scar-enhancement diagnostic, and a Husimi phase-space view of a scarred
state's wall slice.


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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Heller (1984) discovered that individual eigenstates of a classically chaotic system are not always the featureless, ergodically-spread blobs random-matrix intuition suggests: a fraction instead show enhanced probability density concentrated in a tube around one particular unstable classical periodic orbit -- a scar.">

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