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| There is great interest in the quantum/wave properties 
        of systems that show chaos in the classical (short wavelength, or ray) 
        limit. These wave chaotic systems appear in many contexts: nuclear physics, 
        acoustics, two-dimensional quantum dots, and electromagnetic enclosures. 
        Random matrix theory has been widely used to understand the universal 
        properties of these systems through the statistical description of their 
        eigenvalues, eigenfunctions, and scattering matrices. We have developed a simple experiment to study the wave chaos properties of a microwave resonator that has the shape of a quarter "bow-tie" as shown in Fig. 1. The shape is such that the corresponding ray trajectories are chaotic and all periodic ray trajectories are unstable. The eigenvalue spectrum is determined using transmission (S12) measurements, and the eigenfunctions are imaged by means of a scanned perturbation technique. 
 We have extended our understanding of quantum/wave chaotic systems by providing experimental evidence for the universality of the complex impedance and scattering matrices of such systems in accordance with the newly developed Random Coupling Model (RCM). The RCM is a stochastic model based upon the a-priori knowledge of the statistical properties of the chaotic eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the system, and is capable of incorporating both the universal fluctuations in the impedance of such enclosures, as well as non-universal quantities that are specific to a given geometry and coupling mechanisms. The statistical properties of the impedance and scattering matrices can be related to transport properties of mesoscopic systems, for example. We have taken this work in a new direction to investigate the role of chaos on time-reversal properties of the wave equation. Our initial work investigates basic properties of a simple one-recording channel time-reversal mirror for electromagnetic waves. We have also developed a new sensor paradigm that exploits time-reversal symmetry, spatial reciprocity, and chaotic scattering of waves to very sensitively measure small perturbations to a scattering environment (see our movie on YouTube).  
		    Ph.D. Student Min Zhou wins Best Student Paper Award at AMEREM2018  This work is done in collaboration with Profs. Ed Ott 
        and Tom Antonsen of the University of Maryland and is supported by the 
        ONR and AFOSR Center of Excellence and DURIP programs. Prof. Anlage talk: "Experimental 
        Investigation of Universal Fluctuations in Quantum/Wave Chaotic Scattering 
        Systems" Prof. Anlage's talk at the Experimental Chaos Conference, Lille, France. Graduate student Sameer Hemmady has  won the  GSNP Student Speaker Award at the 2006 APS March Meeting.  Here is a link to the Random Coupling Model web site.  See the related page on Time-Reversed Wave Propagation  Video of Scattering Singularities in a Microwave Graph  Video of complex Wigner-Smith time delay in a Microwave Billiard  Papers: (All papers can be downloaded from the full publication list) Sameer Hemmady, Xing Zheng, Thomas M. Antonsen, Edward 
        Ott, and Steven M. Anlage, "Universal Statistics of the Scattering 
        Coefficient of Chaotic Microwave Cavities," Phys. Rev. E 71, 
        056215 (2005). pdf  Xing Zheng, Thomas M. Antonsen Jr., Edward Ott, "Statistics 
        of Impedance and Scattering Matrices in Chaotic Microwave Cavities: Single 
        Channel Case," Electromagnetics 26, 3 (2006). pdf. Xing Zheng, Thomas M. Antonsen Jr., Edward Ott, "Statistics 
        of Impedance and Scattering Matrices of Chaotic Microwave Cavities with 
        Multiple Ports," Electromagnetics 26, 37 (2006). pdf. Xing Zheng, Sameer Hemmady, Thomas M. Antonsen Jr., Steven 
        M. Anlage, and Edward Ott, "Characterization of Fluctuations of Impedance 
        and Scattering Matrices in Wave Chaotic Scattering," Phys. Rev. E 73 , 046208 (2006). pdf.  S. Hemmady, X. Zheng, T.M. Antonsen, E. Ott, S.M. Anlage, 
        "Universal Properties of 2-Port Scattering, Impedance and Admittance 
        Matrices of Wave Chaotic Systems,"        Phys. Rev. E 74 , 036213 (2006). pdf. Sameer Hemmady, Xing Zheng, Thomas M. Antonsen Jr., Edward 
        Ott and Steven M. Anlage, "Aspects of the Scattering and Impedance 
        Properties of Chaotic Microwave Cavities," Acta Physica Polonica 
        A 109, 65 (2006). pdf.  Sameer Hemmady , James Hart , Xing Zheng, Thomas M. Antonsen Jr., Edward Ott, Steven M. Anlage, “Experimental Test of Universal Conductance Fluctuations by means of Wave-Chaotic Microwave Cavities,” Phys. Rev. B 74, 195326 (2006). pdf.   Steven M. Anlage, John Rodgers, Sameer Hemmady , James Hart , Thomas M. Antonsen, Edward Ott, “New Results in Chaotic Time-Reversed Electromagnetics: High Frequency One-Recording-Channel Time Reversal Mirror,”  Acta Physica Polonica A 112, 569 (2007). pdf  James A. Hart, T. M. Antonse, E. Ott, "Scattering a pulse from a chaotic cavity: Transitioning from algebraic to exponential decay," Phys. Rev. E 79 , 016208 (2009). pdf  James A. Hart, T. M. Antonsen, E. Ott, "The effect of short ray trajectories on the scattering statistics of wave chaotic systems," Phys. Rev. E 80, 041109 (2009). pdf Jen-Hao Yeh, James Hart, Elliott Bradshaw, Thomas Antonsen, Edward Ott, Steven M. Anlage, “Universal and non-universal properties of wave chaotic scattering systems,” Phys. Rev. E 81, 025201(R) (2010). pdf Jen-Hao  Yeh, James Hart, Elliott Bradshaw, Thomas Antonsen, Edward Ott, Steven M.  Anlage, “Experimental  Examination of the Effect of Short Ray Trajectories in Two-port Wave-Chaotic  Scattering Systems,” Phys. Rev. E 82, 041114 (2010). pdf  G.  Gradoni, Jen-Hao Yeh, T. M. Antonsen, S. M. Anlage, E. Ott, “Wave Chaotic Analysis of Weakly Coupled  Reverberation Chambers,” proceedings of the 2011  IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, pp. 202-207. pdf T.  M. Antonsen, G. Gradoni, S. M. Anlage E. Ott, “Statistical Characterization of Complex Enclosures  with Distributed Ports,” proceedings of the 2011  IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, pp. 220-225.          pdf  Sameer  Hemmady, Thomas M. Antonsen Jr., Edward Ott, Steven M. Anlage, “Statistical Prediction and Measurement of  Induced Voltages on Components within Complicated Enclosures: A Wave-Chaotic  Approach,” IEEE Trans. Electromag. Compat. 54, 758-771 (2012). pdf L. M. Pecora, H. Lee, D.-H. Wu, T. Antonsen, M.-J. Lee, E. Ott, "Chaos regularization of quantum tunneling rates," Phys. Rev. E 83, 065201 (2011). pdf Jen-Hao Yeh, Thomas M. Antonsen, Edward Ott, Steven M. Anlage, “First-principles model of time-dependent variations in transmission through a fluctuating scattering environment,” Phys. Rev. E (Rapid Communications) 85, 015202 (2012). pdf Jen-Hao Yeh, Edward Ott, Thomas M. Antonsen, Steven M. Anlage, “Fading Statistics in Communications - a Random Matrix Approach,” Acta Physica Polonica A, 120, A-85 (2012). pdf. Mark Herrera, Edward Ott, Thomas M. Antonsen, S. Fishman, “Echoes and revival echoes in systems of anharmonically confined atoms,” Phys. Rev. A 86, 023613 (2012). pdf. Gabriele Gradoni, Thomas M. Antonsen, Jr., and Edward Ott, “Impedance and power fluctuations in linear chains of coupled wave chaotic cavities,” Phys. Rev. E 86, 046204 (2012). pdf. Jen-Hao Yeh and Steven Analge, "In-situ Broadband Cryogenic Calibration for Two-port Superconducting Microwave  Resonators," Rev.  Sci. Instrum. 84, 034706 (2013).    pdf Gabriele  Gradoni, Jen-Hao Yeh, Bo Xiao, Thomas M. Antonsen, Steven M. Anlage, Edward Ott  , “Predicting the statistics of wave  transport through chaotic cavities by the Random Coupling Model: a review and  recent progress,” Wave Motion 51, 606-621 (2014).   pdf  Ming-Jer Lee, Thomas M. Antonsen, Edward Ott , "Statistical model of short wavelength transport through cavities with coexisting chaotic and regular ray trajectories," Phys. Rev. E 87, 062906 (2013).    pdf G. Gradoni, T. M. Antonsen, S. M. Anlage, E. Ott, “Random coupling model for the radiation of irregular apertures,” Proceedings of 2013 URSI International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory (EMTS), pages 272 – 275 (2013). pdf Jen-Hao Yeh, Zachary Drikas, Jesus Gil Gil,  Sun Hong, Biniyam T. Taddese, Edward  Ott, Thomas M. Antonsen, Tim Andreadis, and Steven M. Anlage, “Impedance and Scattering Variance Ratios of  Complicated Wave Scattering Systems in the Low Loss Regime,” Acta Phys.  Polon. A 124, 1045 (2013). pdf  G. Gradoni,  Xiaoming Chen, T. M. Antonsen, Steven M. Anlage, Edward Ott, “Random coupling model for wireless  communication channels,” 2014 International  Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC Europe), pp. 878-882 (2014). pdf  Zachary  B. Drikas, Jesus Gil Gil, Hai V. Tran, Sun K. Hong, Tim D. Andreadis, Jen-Hao  Yeh, Biniyam T. Taddese and Steven M. Anlage, “Application of the Random Coupling Model to Electromagnetic Statistics  in Complex Enclosures,” IEEE Trans. Electromag.  Compat. 56, 1480-1487 (2014). pdf Gabriele Gradoni, Thomas M. Antonsen, Steven  M. Anlage, and Edward Ott, “A Statistical  Model for the Excitation of Cavities Through Apertures,” IEEE Trans. Electromag.  Compat., 57 (5) 1049-1061 (2015). pdf Bo Xiao, Thomas M. Antonsen, Edward Ott, and Steven M. Anlage, “Focusing Waves at an Arbitary Location in a Ray-Chaotic Enclosure Using Time-Reversed Synthetic Sonas.” Phys. Rev. E 93, 052205 (2016). pdf Jesus Gil Gil, Zachary Drikas, Tim Andreadis, Steven M. Anlage, “Prediction of Induced Voltages on Ports in Complex, 3-Dimensional Enclosures with Apertures, using the Random Coupling Model,” IEEE Trans. Electromag. Compat. 58, 1535-1540 (2016). pdf     Min Zhou, Edward Ott, Thomas M. Antonsen, and Steven M. Anlage, “Nonlinear wave chaos: statistics of second harmonic fields,” Chaos 27, 103114 (2017).   pdf Z. Fu, T. Koch, T.M. Antonsen, E. Ott, S.M. Anlage, “Experimental Study of Quantum Graphs with Simple Microwave Networks: Non-Universal Features,” Acta Physica Polonica A 132 (6), 1655-1660 (2017).   pdf
	 Bo Xiao, Thomas M. Antonsen, Edward Ott, Zachary B. Drikas, Jesus Gil Gil, and Steven M. Anlage, “Revealing underlying universal wave fluctuations in a scaled ray-chaotic cavity with remote injection,” Phys. Rev. E 97, 062220 (2018).  pdf
	 Min Zhou, Edward Ott, Thomas M. Antonsen, Jr., Steven M. Anlage, “Scattering Statistics in Nonlinear Wave Chaotic Systems,” arXiv:1812.06789.
		
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