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As described in Chapter 1, microwave billiards has provided an interesting testing ground for quantum chaos. For suitable geometries and materials, the solution of the Helmoltz equation (∇2 + k 2)Ψ = 0 corresponds to the solution of Schrödinger’s equation, viz. for metallic cavities with one dimension much less than λ, the wave length. Microwave billiards have allowed physicists to experimentally study the transition from integrable to chaotic systems where the spectral statistics changes from Poisson to GOE.
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Hurt, N.E. (1997). Mesoscopic Structures. In: Quantum Chaos and Mesoscopic Systems. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 397. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8792-1_14
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