Microwave Studies of Billiard Green Functions and Propagators

J. Stein, H.-J. Stöckmann, and U. Stoffregen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 53 – Published 3 July 1995
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Abstract

In a microwave transmission measurement the Green function G(r,r,k) of a stadium billiard was determined as a function of r and k for fixed r. From this billiard wave functions were obtained including the sign, which was not available earlier. The propagator K(r,r,t) was obtained by Fourier transform of G(r,r,k). It is shown that K(r,r,t) supplies a very suggestive picture of pulse propagation including pulse reconstruction by focusing effects. This can be considered as an experimental verification of a work of Tomsovic and Heller, who found that semiclassical dynamics can account for the quantum mechanical behavior of billiards over surprisingly long times.

  • Received 15 November 1995

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.53

©1995 American Physical Society

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J. Stein, H.-J. Stöckmann, and U. Stoffregen

  • Fachbereich Physik, Universität Marburg, D-35032 Marburg, Germany

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Vol. 75, Iss. 1 — 3 July 1995

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