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Optical billiards break new ground in quantum chaos

May 1, 2001

Physicists are fond of billiards, both in the lab and in the pool hall. From a physics viewpoint, billiards is a game played within a hard-wall enclosure in which particles can bounce elastically. Billiards is also the embodiment of model problems in classical and quantum mechanics.

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