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Statistics of the Mesoscopic Field

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2009-11-11 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We find in measurements of microwave transmission through quasi-1D dielectric samples for both diffusive and localized waves that the field normalized by the square root of the spatially averaged flux in a given sample configuration is a Gaussian random process with position, polarization, frequency, and time. As a result, the probability distribution of the field in the random ensemble is a mixture of Gaussian functions weighted by the distribution of total transmission, while its correlation function is a product of correlators of the Gaussian field and the square root of the total transmission.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0502334,
  title  = {Statistics of the Mesoscopic Field},
  author = {A. A. Chabanov and A. Z. Genack},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0502334},
  year   = {2009}
}

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RevTex: 5 pages, 2 figures; to be presented at Aspects of Quantum Chaotic Scattering (Dresden, March 7-12, 2005)