First Experimental Observation of Superscars in a Pseudointegrable Barrier Billiard

E. Bogomolny, B. Dietz, T. Friedrich, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, F. Schäfer, and C. Schmit
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 254102 – Published 20 December 2006

Abstract

With a perturbation body technique intensity distributions of the electric field strength in a flat microwave billiard with a barrier inside up to mode numbers as large as about 700 were measured. A method for the reconstruction of the amplitudes and phases of the electric field strength from those intensity distributions has been developed. Recently predicted superscars have been identified experimentally and—using the well-known analogy between the electric field strength and the quantum mechanical wave function in a two-dimensional microwave billiard—their properties determined.

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  • Received 17 August 2006

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.254102

©2006 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

E. Bogomolny1, B. Dietz2, T. Friedrich2, M. Miski-Oglu2, A. Richter2,*, F. Schäfer2, and C. Schmit1

  • 1Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques, Université de Paris-Sud, Bâtiment 100, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
  • 2Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany

  • *Electronic address: richter@ikp.tu-darmstadt.de

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Vol. 97, Iss. 25 — 22 December 2006

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