Intensity fluctuations of waves in random media: What is the semiclassical limit?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Metzger, Jakob J ^a,b   Fleischmann, Ragnar ^a   Geisel, Theo ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY DEGREE; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; INTENSITY FLUCTUATIONS; PHYSICAL SYSTEMS; REAL SYSTEMS; SEMICLASSICAL LIMIT; WAVE MECHANICS; WAVES IN RANDOM MEDIA;

ELECTRODYNAMICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUANTUM THEORY; WAVES;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 84879986390     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.013901     Document Type: Article

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