Edge switch transformation in microwave networks.

We investigated the spectra of resonances of four-vertex microwave networks simulating both quantum graphs with preserved and with partially violated time-reversal invariance before and after an edge switch operation. We show experimentally that under the edge switch operation, the spectra of the microwave networks with preserved time-reversal symmetry are level-1 interlaced, i.e.

Hearing Euler characteristic of graphs.

The Euler characteristic χ=|V|-|E| and the total length L are the most important topological and geometrical characteristics of a metric graph. Here |V| and |E| denote the number of vertices and edges of a graph. The Euler characteristic determines the number β of independent cycles in a graph while the total length determines the asymptotic behavior of the energy eigenvalues via Weyl's law.

Missing-level statistics and analysis of the power spectrum of level fluctuations of three-dimensional chaotic microwave cavities.

We present an experimental study of missing-level statistics of three-dimensional chaotic microwave cavities. The investigation is reinforced by the power spectrum of level fluctuations analysis, which also takes into account the missing levels. On the basis of our data sets we demonstrate that the power spectrum of level fluctuations in combination with short- and long-range spectral fluctuations provides a powerful tool for the determination of the fraction of randomly missing levels in systems that display wave chaos such as the three-dimensional chaotic microwave cavities.

Nonuniversality in the spectral properties of time-reversal-invariant microwave networks and quantum graphs.

We present experimental and numerical results for the long-range fluctuation properties in the spectra of quantum graphs with chaotic classical dynamics and preserved time-reversal invariance. Such systems are generally believed to provide an ideal basis for the experimental study of problems originating from the field of quantum chaos and random matrix theory. Our objective is to demonstrate that this is true only for short-range fluctuation properties in the spectra, whereas the observation of deviations in the long-range fluctuations is typical for quantum graphs.

Long-range correlations in rectangular cavities containing pointlike perturbations.

We investigated experimentally the short- and long-range correlations in the fluctuations of the resonance frequencies of flat, rectangular microwave cavities that contained antennas acting as pointlike perturbations. We demonstrate that their spectral properties exhibit the features typical for singular statistics. Hitherto, only the nearest-neighbor spacing distribution had been studied.

Power Spectrum Analysis and Missing Level Statistics of Microwave Graphs with Violated Time Reversal Invariance.

We present experimental studies of the power spectrum and other fluctuation properties in the spectra of microwave networks simulating chaotic quantum graphs with violated time reversal invariance. On the basis of our data sets, we demonstrate that the power spectrum in combination with other long-range and also short-range spectral fluctuations provides a powerful tool for the identification of the symmetries and the determination of the fraction of missing levels. Such a procedure is indispensable for the evaluation of the fluctuation properties in the spectra of real physical systems like, e.

Experimental investigation of the elastic enhancement factor in a transient region between regular and chaotic dynamics.

We present the results of an experimental study of the elastic enhancement factor W for a microwave rectangular cavity simulating a two-dimensional quantum billiard in a transient region between regular and chaotic dynamics. The cavity was coupled to a vector network analyzer via two microwave antennas. The departure of the system from an integrable one due to the presence of antennas acting as scatterers is characterized by the parameter of chaoticity κ=2.