Quantum level statistics of pseudointegrable billiards

Abstract

We study the spectral statistics of systems of two-dimensional pseudointegrable billiards. These systems are classically nonergodic, but nonseparable. It is found that such systems possess quantum spectra which are closely simulated by the Gaussian orthogonal ensemble. We discuss the implications of these results on the conjectured relation between classical chaos and quantum level statistics. We emphasize the importance of the semiclassical nature of any such relation.