Reducing nonideal to ideal coupling in random matrix description of chaotic scattering: application to the time-delay problem

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2001 Mar;63(3 Pt 2):035202. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.63.035202. Epub 2001 Feb 26.

Abstract

We write explicitly a transformation of the scattering phases reducing the problem of quantum chaotic scattering for systems with M statistically equivalent channels at nonideal coupling to that for ideal coupling. Unfolding the phases by their local density leads to universality of their local fluctuations for large M. A relation between the partial time delays and diagonal matrix elements of the Wigner-Smith matrix is revealed for ideal coupling. This helped us in deriving the joint probability distribution of partial time delays and the distribution of the Wigner time delay.