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In the framework of non-Hermitian photonics, we investigate the interplay between disorder and non-Hermiticity in a one-dimensional Hatano-Nelson lattice. While Anderson localization dictates the wave's evolution in conservative random…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-05-20 E. T. Kokkinakis , K. G. Makris , E. N. Economou

High-contrast scattering problems are special among classical wave systems as they allow for strong wave focusing and localisation at low frequencies. We use an asymptotic framework to develop a landscape theory for high-contrast systems…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Bryn Davies , Yiqi Lou

In analogy with usual Anderson localization taking place in time-independent disordered quantum systems where the disorder acts in configuration space, systems exposed to temporally disordered potentials can display Anderson localization in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Krzysztof Sacha , Dominique Delande

We present a new mechanism for generating exponential hierarchies in four-dimensional field theories inspired by Anderson localization in one dimension, exploiting an analogy between the localization of electron energy eigenstates along a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-06 Nathaniel Craig , Dave Sutherland

Stochastic (Anderson) localization is the spatial localization of the wave-function of quantum particles in random media. We show, that a corresponding phenomenon can stabilize spatial solitons in optical resonators: spatial solitons in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kestutis Staliunas

We study localization properties of the eigenstates and wave transport in one-dimensional system consisting of a set of barriers/wells of fixed thickness and random heights. The inherent peculiarity of the system resulting in the enhanced…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-16 I. F. Herrera-Gonzalez , F. M. Izrailev , N. M. Makarov

Understanding random lasing is a formidable theoretical challenge. Unlike conventional lasers, random lasers have no resonator to trap light, they are highly multimode with potentially strong modal interactions and they are based on…

Optics · Physics 2013-01-24 Peter Stano , Philippe Jacquod

Anderson localization has been a subject of intense studies for many years. In this context, we study numerically the influence of long-range correlated disorder on the localization behavior in one dimensional systems. We investigate the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-19 Alexander Croy , Philipp Cain , Michael Schreiber

We experimentally investigate the evolution of linear and nonlinear waves in a realization of the Anderson model using disordered one dimensional waveguide lattices. Two types of localized eigenmodes, flat-phased and staggered, are directly…

We report the observation of weak localization of seismic waves in a natural environment. It emerges as a doubling of the seismic energy around the source within a spot of width a wavelength, that is several tens of meters in our case. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Larose , L. Margerin , B. A. van Tiggelen , M. Campillo

Wave localization induced by spatial disorder is ubiquitous in physics. Here, we study the temporal analog of such phenomenon on water waves. Our time disordered media consists in a collection of temporal interfaces achieved through…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-02-16 Benjamin Apffel , Sander Wildeman , Antonin Eddi , Emmanuel Fort

Quantum state diffusion shows how stochastic interaction with the environment may cause localisation of the wave-function, and thereby demonstrates that quantum mechanics need not invoke a separate axiom of measurement to explain the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. J. Dunstan

Eigenvector localization refers to the situation when most of the components of an eigenvector are zero or near-zero. This phenomenon has been observed on eigenvectors associated with extremal eigenvalues, and in many of those cases it can…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-09-08 Mihai Cucuringu , Michael W. Mahoney

We consider a ring of identical or near identical coupled periodic oscillators in which the connections have randomly heterogeneous strength. We use the master stability function method to determine the possible patterns at the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Juan G. Restrepo , Edward Ott , Brian R. Hunt

Localized waves in disordered one-dimensional materials have been studied for decades, including white-noise and correlated disorder, as well as quasi-periodic disorder. How these wave phenomena relate to those in crystalline (periodic…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-20 X. Lei , D. P. Varn , J. P. Crutchfield

We study, both analytically and numerically, disorder-induced localization of light in random layered structures with magnetooptical materials. The Anderson localization in such structures demonstrates nonreciprocal features in the averaged…

Optics · Physics 2012-01-27 K. Y. Bliokh , S. A. Gredeskul , P. Rajan , I. V. Shadrivov , Y. S. Kivshar

We investigate the behavior of ultracold bosons in optical lattices with a disorder potential generated via a secondary species frozen in random configurations. The statistics of disorder is associated with the physical state in which the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Birger Horstmann , Juan Ignacio Cirac , Tommaso Roscilde

We investigate Anderson localization of light as occurring in ultra-short excitations. A theory based on time dependent coupled-mode equations predicts universal features in the spectrum of the transmitted pulse. In particular, the process…

Optics · Physics 2010-03-15 Claudio Conti , Andrea Fratalocchi , Silvia Gentilini

As discovered by Philip Anderson in 1958, strong disorder can block propagation of waves and lead to the localization of wave-like excitations in space. Anderson localization of light is particularly exciting in view of its possible…

Optics · Physics 2014-01-20 Sergey E. Skipetrov , Igor M. Sokolov

A unified theory for the conductance of a long multimode quantum wire whose finite segment has randomly rough boundaries is developed. It enables one to take account of all mechanisms of wave scattering, both related to boundary roughness…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-04-02 Yu. V. Tarasov , L. D. Shostenko