Invariance principle for wave propagation inside inhomogeneously disordered materials
arXiv:1912.11242 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.057401
Abstract
Disorder is more the rule than the exception in natural and synthetic materials. Nonetheless, wave propagation within inhomogeneously disordered materials has received scant attention. We combine microwave experiments and theory to find the spatial variation of generic wave propagation quantities in inhomogeneously disordered materials. We demonstrate that wave statistics within samples of any dimension are independent of the detailed structure of a material and depend only on the net strengths of distributed scattering and reflection between the observation point and each of the boundaries.
main: 6 pages, 4 figures; Supplemental materials: 13 pages, 4 figures
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