Genuine Electromagnetic Wave Chaos

Phys. Rev. E 51, 5520 (1995)https://ireap.umd.edu/10.1103/PhysRevE.51.55201995Journal ArticleComplex and Emergent Systems

The existence of genuine electromagnetic wave chaos is predicted. The prediction is based on a general nonlinear mechanism that destroys the superposition principle in case the electromagnetic field is allowed to interact dynamically with its boundary. Strong support for this prediction is derived from various model calculations. The proposed chaos mechanism, illustrated here explicitly for the classical Maxwell field, is of general importance for all fields that are allowed to interact dynamically with their boundaries.