# Acknowledgments

## Acknowledgments

We thank Prof. R. Harris for useful discussions and a critical reading of the manuscript. We gratefully acknowledge support by a research grant from the Croucher Foundation, a RGC grant from the Government of Hong Kong under grant number HKU 261/95P, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and le Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l’Aide à la Recherche de la Province du Québec. We also thank the Computer Center of the University of Hong Kong for computational facilities.

## Figure Captions

* Typical curves of the energy levels as a function of the magnetic field, $`E=E(B)`$, for the Sinai-like billiard. The vertical solid line at $`B=B_o`$ intersects the spectrum and the intersections give the usual energy levels $`E=E(B_o)`$. The “B-spectrum” is the collection of intersections of the horizontal solid line at a fixed energy $`E=E_o`$.
* The distribution function of the nearest neighbor “B-level” spacings obtained from the lower part of the “B-spectrum”. The solid line is the analytical formula for GUE $`P_2(s)`$. Solid squares: ensemble averaged data for $`20`$ independent Sinai-like billiards; open circles: for a stadium-shaped quantum dot; triangles: for random matrices averaged over 13 configurations. Insert: the distribution function obtained from the higher part of the “B-spectrum” of the same systems (symbols) and the solid line is the Poisson distribution $`P(s)`$. The energy is fixed at $`e_0=30meV`$.
* The spectral rigidity $`\mathrm{\Delta }_3(L)`$, where $`L`$ is the number of the “B-levels” involved in computing $`\mathrm{\Delta }_3`$. The solid line is the analytical expression for GUE statistics, taken from Ref.. Solid squares: ensemble averaged data for $`20`$ independent Sinai-like billiards; open circles: for a stadium-shaped quantum dot; triangles: from the random matrices averaged over 13 configurations. Insert: sketch of the chaotic structures studied here, a Sinai-like billiard with three hard disks confined inside a rectangle; and a stadium-shaped quantum dot.