Experimental determination of billiard wave functions

J. Stein and H.-J. Stöckmann
Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 2867 – Published 11 May 1992
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Abstract

Wave functions of a stadium billiard are determined in a microwave analog experiment. It is shown that Gutzwiller’s semiclassical representation of the Green’s function in terms of classical trajectories can account not only for eigenvalue spectra but also for eigenfunction patterns.

  • Received 11 October 1991

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.2867

©1992 American Physical Society

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J. Stein and H.-J. Stöckmann

  • Fachbereich Physik, Universität Marburg, D-3550 Marburg, Federal Republic of Germany

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Vol. 68, Iss. 19 — 11 May 1992

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