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Coupled Microwave Billiards as a Model for Symmetry Breaking

H. Alt, C. I. Barbosa, H. -D. Graef, T. Guhr, H. L. Harney, R. Hofferbert, H. Rehfeld, A. Richter

chao-dynarXiv:chao-dyn/9810024

Abstract

Two superconducting microwave billiards have been electromagnetically coupled in a variable way. The spectrum of the entire system has been measured and the spectral statistics analyzed as a function of the coupling strength. It is shown that the results can be understood in terms of a random matrix model of quantum mechanical symmetry breaking -- as e.g. the violation of parity or isospin in nuclear physics.

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