abstract

• Coherent transport phenomena are difficult to observe due to several sources of decoherence. For instance, in the electronic transport through quantum devices the thermal smearing and dephasing, the latter induced by inelastic scattering by phonons or impurities, destroy phase coherence. In other wave systems, the temperature and dephasing may not destroy the coherence and can then be used to observe the underlying wave behaviour of the coherent phenomena. Here, we observe coherent transmission of mechanical waves through a two-dimensional elastic Sinai billiard with two waveguides. The flexural-wave transmission, performed by non-contact means, shows the quantization when a new mode becomes open. These measurements agree with the theoretical predictions of the simplest model highlighting the universal character of the transmission fluctuations. © 2016, The Author(s).

authors

• Báez G.
• Flores-Olmedo E.
• Franco Villafañe John Alexander
• Martínez-Argüello A.M.
• Martínez-Mares M.
• Méndez-Sánchez R.A.

publication date

• 2016-01-01

funding provided via

• Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, CONACYT: CB-2010/154586  Grant
• PAPIIT IN103115  Grant

published in

• Scientific Reports  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1038/srep25157

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volume

• 6

issue

• 1