Quasiscarred modes and their branching behavior at an exceptional point

摘要

We study quasiscarring phenomenon and mode branching at an exceptional point(EP) in typically deformed microcavities. It is shown that quasiscarred (QS)modes are dominant in some mode group and their pattern can be understood byshort-time ray dynamics near the critical line. As cavity deformationincreases, high-Q and low-Q QS modes are branching in an opposite way, at anEP, into two robust mode types showing QS and diamond patterns, respectively.Similar branching behavior can be also found at another EP appearing at ahigher deformation. This branching behavior of QS modes has its origin on thefact that an EP is a square-root branch point.