Coherent backscattering and localization in a self-attracting random walk model

European Physical Journal B

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 235-240

  Lenke, R ^a,b   Tweer, R ^a   Maret, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT CHARLES SADRON   (France)

Author keywords

42.25.Dd Wave propagation in random media; 71.23.An Theories and models; localized states

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013144945     PISSN: 14346028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10051-002-8961-9     Document Type: Article

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