Vibrating soap films: An analog for quantum chaos on billiards

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作者
Arcos, E
Baez, G
Cuatlayol, PA
Prian, MLH
Mendez-Sanchez, RA
Hernandez-Saldana, H
机构
[1] Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Fis, Lab Cuernavaca, Mexico City 01000, DF, Mexico
[2] Natl Autonomous Univ Mexico, Fac Ciencias, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico
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10.1119/1.18913
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G40 [教育学];
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040101 ; 120403 ;
摘要
We present an experimental setup based on the normal modes of vibrating soap films which shows quantum features of integrable and chaotic billiards. In particular, we obtain the so-called scars-narrow linear regions with high probability along classical periodic orbits-for the classically chaotic billiards. We show that these scars are also visible at low frequencies. Finally, we suggest some applications of our experimental setup in other related two-dimensional wave phenomena. (C) 1998 American Association of Physics Teachers.
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