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Phys. Rev. A 72, 061801(R) (2005) [4 pages]

Scarred resonances and steady probability distribution in a chaotic microcavity

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Soo-Young Lee1, Jung-Wan Ryu1,2, Tae-Yoon Kwon1,2, Sunghwan Rim1, and Chil-Min Kim1
1National Creative Research Initiative Center for Controlling Optical Chaos, Pai-Chai University, Daejeon 302-735, Korea
2Department of Physics, Sogang University, Seoul 121-742, Korea

Received 16 May 2005; published 16 December 2005

We investigate scarred resonances of a stadium-shaped chaotic microcavity. It is shown that two components with different chirality of the scarring pattern are slightly rotated in opposite ways from the underlying unstable periodic orbit, when the incident angles of the scarring pattern are close to the critical angle for total internal reflection. In addition, the correspondence of emission pattern with the scarring pattern disappears when the incident angles are much larger than the critical angle. The steady probability distribution gives a consistent explanation about these interesting phenomena and makes it possible to expect the emission pattern in the latter case.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.72.061801
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.72.061801
PACS:
42.55.Sa, 42.65.Sf, 05.45.Mt