title: Experimental evidence of wave chaos from a double slit experiment with water surface waves.
abstract: In this paper, we report experimental evidence of wave chaos using the double slit water surface wave experiment. We demonstrate that classical dynamics of a domain manifests itself in the interference patterns after the diffraction behind the double slit. For a domain whose classical dynamics is integrable clear interference fringes can be observed behind the double slits; for a domain whose classical dynamics is chaotic, however, interference fringes can totally disappear. Our experimental results clearly demonstrate that the centuries-old double slit experiment can render an excellent tool to observe the manifestations of wave chaos.
authors.affiliation: Surface Physics Laboratory and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Yunfei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Yifeng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Jiong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Xiaohan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zi
authors.forename: Baowen
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Li