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Resonance widths in open microwave cavities studied by harmonic inversion
From the measurement of a reflection spectrum of an open microwave cavity the
poles of the scattering matrix in the complex plane have been determined. The
resonances have been extracted by means of the harmonic inversion method. By
this it became possible to resolve the resonances in a regime where the line
widths exceed the mean level spacing up to a factor of 10, a value inaccessible
in experiments up to now. The obtained experimental distributions of line
widths were found to be in perfect agreement with predictions from random
matrix theory when wall absorption and fluctuations caused by couplings to
additional channels are considered.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figure
Classical wave experiments on chaotic scattering
We review recent research on the transport properties of classical waves
through chaotic systems with special emphasis on microwaves and sound waves.
Inasmuch as these experiments use antennas or transducers to couple waves into
or out of the systems, scattering theory has to be applied for a quantitative
interpretation of the measurements. Most experiments concentrate on tests of
predictions from random matrix theory and the random plane wave approximation.
In all studied examples a quantitative agreement between experiment and theory
is achieved. To this end it is necessary, however, to take absorption and
imperfect coupling into account, concepts that were ignored in most previous
theoretical investigations. Classical phase space signatures of scattering are
being examined in a small number of experiments.Comment: 33 pages, 13 figures; invited review for the Special Issue of J.
Phys. A: Math. Gen. on "Trends in Quantum Chaotic Scattering