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A quantum system which is allowed to interact with its boundary in a self-consistent way is shown to exhibit chaos. We conjecture that in general genuine wave chaos (decaying autocorrelation functions, exponential sensitivity of wavefunctions to initial wavefunction configurations) can be obtained whenever a wavefield is allowed to modify its confining boundaries in a self-consistent way. We suggest to test this conjecture in the acoustic regime.
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Blümel, R., Mehl, J.B. Quantum chaos. J Stat Phys 68, 311–319 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01048847
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