Waves do not spread in a disordered medium if there is less than one wavelength between two defects. Physicists from the universities of Zurich and Constance have now proved Nobel Prize winner Philip ...

Researchers in the UK say they have observed behaviour that is very close to an optical version of “Anderson localization” in a mat of gallium-phosphide nanowires – a material that is a strong ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Disordered dielectric materials with structural correlations show unconventional optical behavior: They can be transparent to long-wavelength ...

Anderson localisation in optical fibres is a phenomenon in which the propagation of light is halted by the presence of disorder in the refractive index profile. This disruption of normal diffusive ...

Two independent teams of physicists have used ultracold atomic gases to demonstrate how a little bit of disorder can paralyse a quantum system — an effect called “Anderson localization”. Their ...