Statistics of Complex Wigner Time Delays as a counter of S-matrix poles: Theory and Experiment

Abstract

We study the statistical properties of the complex generalization of Wigner time delay ${\tau }_{\text{W}}$ for sub-unitary wave chaotic scattering systems. We first demonstrate theoretically that the mean value of the $\text{Re}[{\tau }_{\text{W}}]$ distribution function for a system with uniform absorption strength $\eta$ is equal to the fraction of scattering matrix poles with imaginary parts exceeding $\eta$. The theory is tested experimentally with an ensemble of microwave graphs with either one or two scattering channels, and showing broken time-reversal invariance and variable uniform attenuation. The experimental results are in excellent agreement with the developed theory. The tails of the distributions of both real and imaginary time delay are measured and are also found to agree with theory. The results are applicable to any practical realization of a wave chaotic scattering system in the short-wavelength limit.

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