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    Wigner distribution function formalism for superconductors and collisionless dynamics of the superconducting order parameter

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    A technique to study collisionless dynamics of a homogeneous superconducting system is developed, which is based on Riccati parametrization of Wigner distribution function. The quantum evolution of the superconductiung order parameter, initially deviated from the equilibrium value, is calculated using this technique. The effect of a time-dependent BCS paring interaction on the dynamics of the order parameter is also studied.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figure

    Statistical properties of energy levels of chaotic systems: Wigner or non-Wigner

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    For systems whose classical dynamics is chaotic, it is generally believed that the local statistical properties of the quantum energy levels are well described by Random Matrix Theory. We present here two counterexamples - the hydrogen atom in a magnetic field and the quartic oscillator - which display nearest neighbor statistics strongly different from the usual Wigner distribution. We interpret the results with a simple model using a set of regular states coupled to a set of chaotic states modeled by a random matrix.Comment: 10 pages, Revtex 3.0 + 4 .ps figures tar-compressed using uufiles package, use csh to unpack (on Unix machine), to be published in Phys. Rev. Let
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