Wave Dynamical Chaos in a Superconducting Three-Dimensional Sinai Billiard

Abstract

Based on very accurate measurements performed on a superconducting microwave resonator shaped like a desymmetrized three-dimensional (3D) Sinai billiard, we investigate for the first time spectral properties of the vectorial Helmholtz, i.e. non-quantum wave equation for a classically totally chaotic and theoretically precisely studied system. We are thereby able to generalize some aspects of quantum chaos and present some results which are consequences of the polarization features of the electromagnetic waves.

4 pages RevTex; 4 postscript figures; to be published in Phys. Rev. Lett.; Info: [email protected]