First Experimental Observation of Superscars in a Pseudointegrable Barrier Billiard
E. Bogomolny 1, B. Dietz 2, T. Friedrich 2, M. Miski-Oglu 2, A. Richter 2, F. Schaefer 2, C. Schmit 1
Physical Review Letters 97 (2006) 254102
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.
- 1. Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques (LPTMS),
CNRS : UMR8626 – Université Paris XI - Paris Sud - 2. Institut für Kernphysik,
Technische Universität Darmstadt
