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T Guhr

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PubMed2006

Strength distributions and symmetry breaking in coupled microwave billiards.

Flat microwave cavities can be used to experimentally simulate quantum mechanical systems. By coupling two such cavities, we study the equivalent to symmetry breaking in quantum mechanics. As the coupling is tunable, we can measure resonance strength distributions as a function of the symmetry breaking. We analyze the data by employing a qualitative model based on random matrix theory and show that the results derived from the strength distribution are consistent with those previously obtained from spectral statistics.

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PubMed2003

Experiments on elastomechanical wave functions in chaotic plates and their statistical features.

We measure the amplitude of the elastomechanical displacement at a fine grid of points on a free plate having the shape of a Sinai stadium. The obtained displacement field formally corresponds to a wave function in a quantum system. While the distribution of the squared amplitudes agrees with the prediction of random matrix theory (RMT), there is a strong deviation of the spatial correlator from the standard prediction for quantum chaotic systems. We show that this is due to the presence of two modes, leading to a beating phenomenon. We construct a proper extension of the spatial correlator within the framework of RMT.

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PubMed2000

Stochastic field theory for a dirac particle propagating in gauge field disorder

Recent theoretical and numerical developments show analogies between quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and disordered systems in condensed matter physics. We study the spectral fluctuations of a Dirac particle propagating in a finite four-dimensional box in the presence of gauge fields. We construct a model which combines Efetov's approach to disordered systems with the principles of chiral symmetry and QCD. To this end, the gauge fields are replaced with a stochastic white-noise potential, the gauge field disorder. Effective supersymmetric nonlinear sigma models are obtained. Spontaneous breaking of supersymmetry is found. We rigorously derive the equivalent of the Thouless energy within our generic model implying the universality of this scale in QCD. Connections to other low energy effective theories, in particular, the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model and chiral perturbation theory, are found.

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PubMed2000

Impact of isospin breaking on the distribution of transition probabilities

In the present paper we investigate the effect of symmetry breaking in the statistical distributions of reduced transition amplitudes and reduced transition probabilities. These quantities are easier to access experimentally than the components of the eigenvectors and were measured by Adams et al. [Phys. Lett. B 422, 13 (1998)] for the electromagnetic transitions in 26Al. We focus on isospin symmetry breaking described by a matrix model where both the Hamiltonian and the electromagnetic operator break the symmetry. The results show that for partial isospin conservation, the statistical distribution of the reduced transition probability can considerably deviate from the Porter-Thomas distribution.

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