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We study the wave transport through a disordered system inside a waveguide. The expectation value of the complex reflection and transmission coefficients (the coherent fields) as well as the transmittance and reflectance are obtained…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-10-24 M. Yepez

In many situations, the statistical properties of wave systems with chaotic classical limits are well-described by random matrix theory. However, applications of random matrix theory to scattering problems require introduction of system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 James A. Hart , Thomas M. Antonsen , Edward Ott

The analytical study of long wave scattering in a canal with a rapidly varying cross-section is presented. It is assumed that waves propagate on a stationary current with a given flow rate. Due to the fixed flow rate, the current speed is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-19 Semyon Churilov , Andrei Ermakov , Germain Rousseaux , Yury Stepanyants

The localization length for isotopically disordered harmonic one-dimensional chains is calculated for arbitrary impurity concentration and scattering cross section. The localization length depends on the scattering cross section of a single…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 K. A. Snyder , T. R. Kirkpatrick

In pseudo integrable systems diffractive scattering caused by wedges and impurities can be described within the framework of Geometric Theory of Diffraction (GDT) in a way similar to the one used in the Periodic Orbit Theory of Diffraction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 G. Vattay , J. Cserti , G. Palla , G. Szálka

We show in random matrix theory, microwave measurements, and computer simulations that the mean free path of a random medium and the strength and position of an embedded reflector can be determined from radiation scattered by the system.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-10-06 Yiming Huang , Xujun Ma , Azriel Z. Genack , Victor A. Gopar

The spatial structure of the inhomogeneity in a disordered medium determines how waves scatter and propagate in it. We present a theoretical model of how the Fourier components of the disorder control wave scattering in a two-dimensional…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-03 Zhun-Yong Ong

The paper continues the analysis, started in [1] (Part I,arXiv:2302.04353), of the model open wave-guide problem defined by 2 semi-infinite, rectangular wave-guides meeting along a common perpendicular line. In Part I we reduce the solution…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Charles L. Epstein

We consider the scattering of an electron from a semi-infinite one-dimensional random medium. The random medium is characterized by force, $-\d V/\d L$ being the basic random variable. We obtain an analytical expression for the stationary…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-30 Sandeep K. Joshi , A. M. Jayannavar

In this paper we examine the effect of delamination on wave scattering, with the aim of creating a control measure for layered waveguides of various bonding types. Previous works have considered specific widths of solitary waves for the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-09-01 J. S. Tamber , D. J. Chappell , J. C. Poore , M. R. Tranter

We developed an open-source scalar wave transport model to estimate the generalized scattering matrix (S matrix) of a disordered medium in the diffusion regime. Here, the term generalization refers to the incorporation of evanescent wave…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-17 Michael Raju , Baptiste Jayet , Stefan Andersson-Engels

The application of random matrix theory to scattering requires introduction of system-specific information. This paper shows that the average impedance matrix, which characterizes such system-specific properties, can be semiclassically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-02-03 Jen-Hao Yeh , James A. Hart , Elliott Bradshaw , Thomas M. Antonsen , Edward Ott , Steven M. Anlage

In shallow-water waveguides a propagating field can be decomposed over three kinds of modes: the propagating modes, the radiating modes and the evanescent modes. In this paper we consider the propagation of a wave in a randomly perturbed…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-12-01 Christophe Gomez

We study the defocusing energy-critical nonlinear wave equation in four dimensions. Our main result proves the stability of the scattering mechanism under random pertubations of the initial data. The random pertubation is defined through a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Bjoern Bringmann

The boundaries of waveguides and nanowires have drastic influence on their coherent scattering properties. Designing the boundary profile is thus a promising approach for transmission and band-gap engineering with many applications. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-04 O. Dietz , H. -J. Stöckmann , U. Kuhl , F. M. Izrailev , N. M. Makarov , J. Doppler , F. Libisch , S. Rotter

Oceanic internal tides and other inertia-gravity waves propagate in an energetic turbulent flow whose lengthscales are similar to the wavelengths. Advection and refraction by this flow cause the scattering of the waves, redistributing their…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Miles A. C. Savva , Jacques Vanneste

We study the transmission of a disordered waveguide subjected to a finite bias field. The statisticaldistribution of transmission is analytically shown to take a universal form. It depends on a singleparameter, the system length expressed…

The dispersion properties of rectangular metallic waveguides periodically loaded by uniaxial resonant scatterers are studied with help of an analytical theory based on the local field approach, the dipole approximation and the method of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Pavel A. Belov , Constantin R. Simovski

Propagation of elastic waves along the axis of cylindrical shells is of great current interest due to their ubiquitous presence and technological importance. Geometric imperfections and spatial variations of properties are inevitable in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-11-07 Kevin Jose , Neil Ferguson , Atul Bhaskar

We report on an extensive study of the elastic scattering time $\tauS$ of matter-waves in optical disordered potentials. Using direct experimental measurements, numerical simulations and comparison with first-order Born approximation based…