# Scarring by homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits.

@article{Wisniacki2006ScarringBH,
title={Scarring by homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits.},
author={Diego Wisniacki and Eduardo G Vergini and Rosa M. Benito and Florentino Borondo},
journal={Physical review letters},
year={2006},
volume={97 9},
pages={
094101
}
}
• Published 12 June 2006
• Physics
• Physical review letters
In addition to the well-known scarring effect of periodic orbits, we show here that homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits, which are cornerstones in the theory of classical chaos, also scar eigenfunctions of classically chaotic systems when associated closed circuits in phase space are properly quantized, thus introducing strong quantum correlations. The corresponding quantization rules are also established. This opens the door for developing computationally tractable methods to calculate…
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