Influence of Experimental Resolution on the Spectral Statistics Used to Show Quantum Chaos: The Case of Molecular Vibrational Chaos
Résumé
We show how the resolution of an experimental spectrum influences the standard statistical tests of random matrix theory such as the nearest neighbor distribution, the Fourier transform, or the number variance. A new experiment on very highly excited vibrational states of CS2 is analyzed in light of these new results. The resolution problem in the published results concerning the molecular vibrational chaos is then examined.