Two superconducting microwave billiards have been electromagnetically coupled
in a variable way. The spectrum of the entire system has been measured and the
spectral statistics analyzed as a function of the coupling strength. It is
shown that the results can be understood in terms of a random matrix model of
quantum mechanical symmetry breaking -- as e.g. the violation of parity or
isospin in nuclear physics.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
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.
The nearest-neighbor spacing distributions proposed by four models, namely, the Berry-Robnik, CaurierGrammaticos-Ramani, Lenz-Haake, and the deformed Gaussian orthogonal ensemble, as well as the ansatz by Brody, are applied to the transition between chaos and order that occurs in the isotropic quartic oscillator. The advantages and disadvantages of these five descriptions are discussed. In addition, the results of a simple extension of the expression for the Dyson-Mehta statistic ⌬ 3 are compared with those of a more popular one, usually associated with the Berry-Robnik formalism.
Bayesian inference is applied to the level fluctuations of two coupled microwave billiards in order to extract the coupling strength. The coupled resonators provide a model of a chaotic quantum system containing two coupled symmetry classes of levels. The number variance is used to quantify the level fluctuations as a function of the coupling and to construct the conditional probability distribution of the data. The prior distribution of the coupling parameter is obtained from an invariance argument on the entropy of the posterior distribution.
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