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Experimental test of a trace formula for chaotic 3D microwave cavities

Barbara Susanne Dietz

Institut Für Kernphysik
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

We have measured resonance spectra in a superconducting microwave cavity with the shape of a three-dimensional generalized Bunimovich stadium billiard and analyzed their spectral fluctuation properties. The experimental length spectrum exhibits contributions from periodic orbits of non-generic modes and from unstable periodic orbits of the underlying classical system. It is well reproduced by our theoretical calculations based on the trace formula derived by Balian and Duplantier for chaotic electromagnetic cavities. Analysis of the spectral statistics reveals that there is a partial decoupling between TE- and TM-modes which decreases with increasing frequency.


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