The Gutzwiller trace formula#

The exact one-dimensional Gutzwiller trace formula, reconstructing a spectrum purely from a single classical periodic orbit’s action and period, and the general isolated-orbit stability amplitude used beyond the exactly-solvable 1D case; the quartic oscillator’s spectrum and revivals; the Berry-Tabor length spectrum of an integrable billiard; Balian and Bloch’s smoothed level density of a billiard; and Bogomolny’s transfer operator, quantizing the disk and the stadium on their boundaries.

Balian and Bloch’s level-density expansion for billiards

Balian and Bloch's level-density expansion for billiards

The Berry-Tabor formula: an integrable billiard’s spectrum

The Berry-Tabor formula: an integrable billiard's spectrum

Bogomolny’s transfer operator: quantizing a billiard on its boundary

Bogomolny's transfer operator: quantizing a billiard on its boundary

Gutzwiller’s trace formula: a spectrum from classical orbits

Gutzwiller's trace formula: a spectrum from classical orbits

Gutzwiller’s trace formula

Gutzwiller's trace formula