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Chaotic Scattering in the Regime of Weakly Overlapping Resonances

Chaotic Dynamics 2009-03-04 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We measure the transmission and reflection amplitudes of microwaves in a resonator coupled to two antennas at room temperature in the regime of weakly overlapping resonances and in a frequency range of 3 to 16 GHz. Below 10.1 GHz the resonator simulates a chaotic quantum system. The distribution of the elements of the scattering matrix S is not Gaussian. The Fourier coefficients of S are used for a best fit of the autocorrelation function if S to a theoretical expression based on random--matrix theory. We find very good agreement below but not above 10.1 GHz.

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@article{arxiv.0808.3503,
  title  = {Chaotic Scattering in the Regime of Weakly Overlapping Resonances},
  author = {B. Dietz and T. Friedrich and H. L. Harney and M. Miski-Oglu and A. Richter and F. Schaefer and H. A. Weidenmueller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.3503},
  year   = {2009}
}