Localization of ultrasound in a three-dimensional elastic network

Nature Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 945-948

  Hu, Hefei ^a,c   Strybulevych, A ^a   Page, J H ^a   Skipetrov, S E ^b   Van Tiggelen, B A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c United States of America   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDERSON LOCALIZATION; COMPARISON WITH EXPERIMENTS; DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; FINITE SIZE SCALING; FINITE TEMPERATURES; NON-GAUSSIAN STATISTICS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TIGHT BINDING MODEL;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 57049105718     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1101     Document Type: Article

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