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Disk Resonances Sune Fallgaard Nielsen January Intro duction This rep ort calculates the resonances of the disk pinball using cycle expansion and is an exam pro ject given in the course Geometrical methods in chaos by Predrag Cvitanovic Ronnie Mainieri at the Niels Bohr Institute fall A physicists quantum pinball machine is a d hamiltonian scattering problem The scattering of light waves in a plane with totally reective circular disks Cv p The resonances of the disk pinball is analyzed by cycle expansion of the Gutzwiller SemiClassical Zeta function the computed resonances will b e compared with the resonances obtained by quantum mechanics Finally the convergence of the Gutzwiller SemiClassical Zeta function will b e demonstrated and compared with that of the dynamical zeta function Disk Pinball Dynamics 3 2 H= H=0 2 4 R 1 a Figure Disk pinball system The disk pinball gure consists of identical circular disks lab elled with radius a each placed on the vertices of a square with a disk center to disk center distance R The corresp onding hamiltonian is within and on a disk the disk is sup er reective and elsewhere As the four disks are equidistantly spaced the disk system has Cv symmetry see gure The dynamics in the disk pinball is completly describ ed by its symb olic dynamics Reduced Symb ol