Nonlinear coherent transport of waves in disordered media
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2009-11-13 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Abstract
We present a diagrammatic theory for coherent backscattering from disordered dilute media in the nonlinear regime. The approach is non-perturbative in the strength of the nonlinearity. We show that the coherent backscattering enhancement factor is strongly affected by the nonlinearity, and corroborate these results by numerical simulations. Our theory can be applied to several physical scenarios like scattering of light in nonlinear Kerr media, or propagation of matter waves in disordered potentials.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0707.1956,
title = {Nonlinear coherent transport of waves in disordered media},
author = {Thomas Wellens and Benoit Gremaud},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.1956},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures