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Tunneling and the Band Structure of Chaotic Systems
We compute the dispersion laws of chaotic periodic systems using the
semiclassical periodic orbit theory to approximate the trace of the powers of
the evolution operator. Aside from the usual real trajectories, we also include
complex orbits. These turn out to be fundamental for a proper description of
the band structure since they incorporate conduction processes through
tunneling mechanisms. The results obtained, illustrated with the kicked-Harper
model, are in excellent agreement with numerical simulations, even in the
extreme quantum regime.Comment: 11 pages, Latex, figures on request to the author (to be sent by fax
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