Statistics of wave dynamics in random media

Citation
Az. Genack et al., Statistics of wave dynamics in random media, PHYS REV L, 82(4), 1999, pp. 715-718
Citations number
31
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
ISSN journal
00319007 → ACNP
Volume
82
Issue
4
Year of publication
1999
Pages
715 - 718
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(19990125)82:4<715:SOWDIR>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
We measure the joint distribution of the energy transmission coefficient ep silon(ab) and the single channel delay time tau(ab) for microwave radiation propagating through a random medium in the limit of zero pulse bandwidth. For fixed epsilon(ab) the distribution of tau(ab) is Gaussian with variance inversely proportional to epsilon(ab) In contradistinction to tau(ab), the dynamic matrix element epsilon(ab) tau(ab) has substantial long-range corr elation with frequency shift. We present a new dynamic theory for a Gaussia n process, which is in excellent agreement with experiment.