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Transmission in waveguides with compositional and structural disorder: experimental effects of disorder cross-correlations

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2014-01-28 v2

Abstract

We analyse the single-mode transmission of microwaves in a guide with internal random structure. The waveguide contains scatterers characterised by random heights and positions, corresponding to compositional and structural disorder. We measure the effects of cross-correlations between two kinds of disorder, showing how they enhance or attenuate the experimentally found transmission gaps generated by long-range self-correlations. The results agree with the theoretical predictions obtained for the aperiodic Kronig-Penney model and prove that self- and cross-correlations have relevant effects also in finite disordered samples of small size.

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@article{arxiv.1109.1120,
  title  = {Transmission in waveguides with compositional and structural disorder: experimental effects of disorder cross-correlations},
  author = {O. Dietz and U. Kuhl and J. C. Hernández-Herrejón and L. Tessieri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.1120},
  year   = {2014}
}

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15 pages, 8 figures