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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
First experimental observation of superscars in a pseudointegrable barrier billiard
E Bogomolny1, B Dietz, T Friedrich
1Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques, Université de Paris-Sud, Bâtiment 100, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France.
Abstract:
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.
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