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Ballistic Localization in Quasi-1D Waveguides with Rough Surfaces

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

Structure of eigenstates in a periodic quasi-1D waveguide with a rough surface is studied both analytically and numerically. We have found a large number of "regular" eigenstates for any high energy. They result in a very slow convergence to the classical limit in which the eigenstates are expected to be completely ergodic. As a consequence, localization properties of eigenstates originated from unperturbed transverse channels with low indexes, are strongly localized (delocalized) in the momentum (coordinate) representation. These eigenstates were found to have a quite unexpeted form that manifests a kind of "repulsion" from the rough surface. Our results indicate that standard statistical approaches for ballistic localization in such waveguides seem to be unappropriate.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0306049,
  title  = {Ballistic Localization in Quasi-1D Waveguides with Rough Surfaces},
  author = {F. M. Izrailev and J. A. Méndez-Bermúdez and G. A. Luna-Acosta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0306049},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures

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