Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 194102 (2003) [4 pages]Ray-Splitting Correction to the Weyl Formula: Experiment versus TheoryReceived 10 January 2003; published 16 May 2003 An abrupt change in the dielectric constant of media filling a microwave cavity was predicted by Prange et al. [ Phys. Rev. E 53 207 (1996)] to produce a ray splitting correction to the Weyl formula for the mean staircase function of resonances. We present the first experimental confirmation of this effect. Our results with a quasi-two-dimensional cavity are directly relevant to the ray-splitting correction in two-dimensional quantal ray-splitting billiards. © 2003 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.194102
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.194102
PACS:
05.45.Mt, 03.65.Sq, 42.25.Gy
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