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Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174102 (2008) [4 pages]

Uncertainty-Limited Turnstile Transport in Deformed Microcavities

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Jeong-Bo Shim1,2, Sang-Bum Lee1, Sang Wook Kim3, Soo-Young Lee1, Juhee Yang1, Songky Moon1, Jai-Hyung Lee1, and Kyungwon An1,*
1School of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-742, Korea
2Max-Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzer Strasse 38, Dresden, Germany
3Department of Physics Education, Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, Korea

Received 24 December 2007; published 1 May 2008

We present both experimental and theoretical evidence for uncertainty-limited turnstile transport in deformed microcavities. As the degree of cavity deformation was increased, a secondary peak gradually emerged in the far-field emission patterns to form a double-peak structure. Our observation can be explained in terms of the interplay between turnstile transport and its suppression by the quantum mechanical uncertainty principle.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.174102
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.174102
PACS:
05.45.Mt, 42.55.Sa, 73.23.−b

*kwan@phya.snu.ac.kr

 
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