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We investigate eigenfunctions of the Laplacian perturbed by a delta potential on the standard tori \({\mathbb{R}^d/2\pi\mathbb{Z}^d}\) in dimensions \({d = 2,3}\). Despite quantum ergodicity holding for the set of “new” eigenfunctions we show that superscars occur—there is phase space localization along families of closed orbits, in the sense that some semiclassical measures contain a finite number of Lagrangian components of the form \({c_{i} \cdot dx\delta({\xi}-{\xi}_{i})}\), for \({c_{i} > 0}\) uniformly bounded from below. In particular, for both \({d = 2}\) and \({d = 3}\), eigenfunctions fail to equidistribute in phase space along an infinite subsequence of new eigenvalues. For \({d = 2}\), we also show that some semiclassical measures have both strongly localized momentum marginals and non-uniform quantum limits (i.e., the position marginals are non-uniform). For \({d = 3}\), superscarred eigenstates are quite rare, but for \({d = 2}\) we show that the phenomenon is quite common—with \({N_{2}(x) \sim x/\sqrt{\log x}}\) denoting the counting function for the new eigenvalues below x, there are \({\gg N_{2}(x)/{\rm log}^A x}\) eigenvalues \({\lambda}\) with the property that any semiclassical limit along these eigenvalues exhibits superscarring.
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P. K. and L. R. were partially supported by grants from the Göran Gustafsson Foundation for Research in Natural Sciences and Medicine, and the Swedish Research Council (621-2011-5498).
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Kurlberg, P., Rosenzweig, L. Superscars for Arithmetic Toral Point Scatterers. Commun. Math. Phys. 349, 329–360 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-016-2749-x
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