Effective Hamiltonian for a microwave billiard with attached waveguide

In a recent work the resonance widths in a microwave billiard with attached waveguide were studied in dependence on the coupling strength E. Persson et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2478 (2000), and resonance trapping was experimentally found. In the present paper an effective Hamiltonian is derived that depends exclusively on billiard and waveguide geometry. Its eigenvalues give the poles of the scattering matrix provided that the system and environment are defined adequately. Further, we present the results of resonance trapping measurements where, in addition to our previous work, the position of the slit aperture within the waveguide was varied. Numerical simulations with the derived Hamiltonian qualitatively reproduce the experimental data.