The statistics of scattering of waves inside single ray-chaotic enclosures have been successfully described by the Random Coupling Model (RCM). We expand the RCM to systems consisting of multiple complex ray-chaotic enclosures with variable coupling scenarios. The statistical properties of the model-generated quantities are tested against measured data of electrically large multi-cavity systems of various designs. The statistics of model-generated trans-impedance and induced voltages on a load impedance agree well with the experimental results. The RCM coupled chaotic enclosure model is general and can be applied to other physical systems including coupled quantum dots, disordered nanowires, and short-wavelength electromagnetic propagation through rooms in buildings, aircraft and ships. arXiv:1909.03827v1 [physics.class-ph]

The Random Coupling Model (RCM) has been successfully applied to predicting the statistics of currents and voltages at ports in complex electromagnetic (EM) enclosures operating in the short wavelength limit [1-4]. Recent studies have extended the RCM to systems of multi-mode aperturecoupled enclosures. However, as the size (as measured in wavelengths) of a coupling aperture grows, the coupling matrix used in the RCM increases as well, and the computation becomes more complex and time consuming. A simple Power Balance Model (PWB) can provide fast predictions for the averaged power density of waves inside electrically-large systems for a wide range of cavity and coupling scenarios. However, the important interference induced fluctuations of the wave field retained in the RCM are absent in PWB. Here we aim to combine the best aspects of each model to create a hybrid treatment and study the EM fields in coupled enclosure systems. The proposed hybrid approach provides both mean and fluctuation information of the EM fields without the full computational complexity of coupled-cavity RCM. We compare the hybrid model predictions with experiments on linear cascades of over-moded cavities. We find good agreement over a set of different loss parameters and for different coupling strengths between cavities. The range of validity and applicability of the hybrid method are tested and discussed.

The wave properties of complex scattering systems that are large compared to the wavelength, and show chaos in the classical limit, are extremely sensitive to system details. A solution to the wave equation for a specific configuration can change substantially under small perturbations. Due to this extreme sensitivity, it is difficult to discern basic information about a complex system simply from scattering data as a function of energy or frequency, at least by eye. In this work, we employ supervised machine learning algorithms to reveal and classify hidden information about the complex scattering system presented in the data. As an example we are able to distinguish the total number of connected cavities in a linear chain of weakly coupled lossy enclosures from measured reflection data. A predictive machine learning algorithm for the future states of a perturbed complex scattering system is also trained with a recurrent neural network. Given a finite training data series, the reflection/transmission properties can be forecast by the proposed algorithm. arXiv:1908.04716v1 [cond-mat.dis-nn]