[Triumf-seminars] TRIUMF Seminar today at 14:00

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Date/Time: Thu 2004-02-19 at 14:00

Location:  Auditorium          

Speaker:   Achim Richter (Institut fur Kernphysik, Darmstadt)

Title:     Playing Billiards with Microwaves: Quantum Manifestations of Classical Chaos

Abstract: Flat microwave resonators shaped in the form of a billiards table are particularly well suited to study the quantum mechanical behavior of classically chaotic systems because of the formal equivalence of the respective wave equations, i.e. the Helmholtz and the Schroedinger equation. With superconducting resonators with high quality factors it is possible to measure the spectrum of eigenmodes and their eigenfunctions completely and to determine their statistical properties. Two- and three-dimensional billiard systems of different chaoticity are discussed. It is shown that they display generic features which are also evident in real physical systems like atoms, molecules and nuclei.

Stimulants available 15 minutes before the talk.

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