The two scenarios for quantum multifractality breakdown

Several types of physical systems are characterized by quantum wave func- tions with multifractal properties. In the quantum chaos field, they cor- respond to pseudointegrable systems, with properties intermediate between integrability and chaos. In condensed matter, they include electrons in a disordered potential at the Anderson metal-insulator transition. This multi- fractality leads to particular transport properties and appears in conjunction with specific types of spectral statistics. In parallel, progress in experimental techniques allows to observe finer and finer properties of the wavefunctions of quantum or wave systems, as well as to perform experiments with un- precedented control on the dynamics of the systems studied. In this context, this talk will discuss the robustness of multifractality in presence of footnote- size perturbations. We expose two scenarios for the breakdown of quantum multifractality under the effect of such perturbations. In the first scenario, multifractality survives below a certain scale of the quantum fluctuations. In the other one, the fluctuations of the wave functions are changed at every scale and each multifractal dimension smoothly goes to the ergodic value. We use as generic examples a one-dimensional dynamical system and the three- dimensional Anderson model at the metal-insulator transition, and show that for different types of perturbation the destruction of multifractal properties always follows one of these two ways. Our results thus suggest that quantum multifractality breakdown is universal and obeys one of these two scenarios depending on the perturbation. We also discuss the experimental implica- tions.