Stable interaction-induced Anderson-like localization embedded in standing waves

Anderson Localization of Electromagnetic Waves in Confined Disordered Dielectric Media

Anderson Localization of Electromagnetic Waves in Dielectric Media: Model Studies

Anderson localization of electromagnetic waves in random arrays of dielectric cylinders confined within a planar metallic waveguide is studied. The disordered dielectric medium is modeled by a system of randomly distributed 2D electric dipoles. An effective theoretical approach based on the method of images is developed. A clear distinction between isolated localized waves (which exist in finit...

Anderson localization of classical waves in weakly scattering metamaterials

Ara A. Asatryan,1 Sergey A. Gredeskul,2,3 Lindsay C. Botten,1 Michael A. Byrne,1 Valentin D. Freilikher,4 Ilya V. Shadrivov,3 Ross C. McPhedran,5 and Yuri S. Kivshar3 1Department of Mathematical Sciences and Centre for Ultrahigh-Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), University of Technology, Sydney, New South Wales 2007, Australia 2Department of Physics, Ben Gurion University of the Ne...

Anderson localization or nonlinear waves: a matter of probability.

In linear disordered systems Anderson localization makes any wave packet stay localized for all times. Its fate in nonlinear disordered systems (localization versus propagation) is under intense theoretical debate and experimental study. We resolve this dispute showing that, unlike in the common hypotheses, the answer is probabilistic rather than exclusive. At any small but finite nonlinearity ...

Quantum non-Markovianity induced by Anderson localization

As discovered by P. W. Anderson, excitations do not propagate freely in a disordered lattice, but, due to destructive interference, they localise. As a consequence, when an atom interacts with a disordered lattice, one indeed observes a non-trivial excitation exchange between atom and lattice. Such non-trivial atomic dynamics will in general be characterised also by a non-trivial quantum inform...