Chaos and quantization of the three-particle generic Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou model I: Density of states and spectral statistics

Abstract

We study the mixed-type classical dynamics of the three-particle Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) model in relationship with its quantum counterpart, and present new results on aspects of quantum chaos in this system. First we derive for the general N-particle FPUT system the transformation to the normal mode representation. Then we specialize to the three-particle FPUT case, and derive analytically the semiclassical energy density of states, and its derivatives in which different singularies are determined, using the Thomas-Fermi rule. The result perfectly agrees with the numerical energy density from the Krylov subspace method, as well as with the energy density obtained by the method of quantum typicality. Here, in paper I, we concentrate on the energy level statistics (level spacing and spacing ratios), in all classical dynamical regimes of interest: the almost entirely regular, the entirely chaotic, and the mixed-type regimes. We clearly confirm, correspondingly, the Poissonian statistics, the GOE statistics, and the Berry-Robnik-Brody (BRB) statistics in the mixed-type regime. It is found that the BRB level spacing distribution perfectly fits the numerical data. The extracted quantum Berry-Robnik parameter is found to agree with the classical value within better than one percent. We discuss the role of localization of chaotic eigenstates, and its appearances, in relation to the classical phase space structure (Poincar\'e and SALI plots), whose details will be presented in paper II, where the structure and the statistical properties of the Husimi functions in the quantum phase space will be studied.