Penumbra diffraction in the semiclassical quantization of concave billiards

Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General

Volumn 30, Issue 19, 1997, Pages 6693-6723

  Primack, Harel ^a   Schanz, Holger ^b,c   Smilansky, Uzy ^a   Ussishkin, Iddo ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

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EID: 0031558533     PISSN: 03054470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0305-4470/30/19/012     Document Type: Article

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