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Persistent random walk on a site-disordered one-dimensional lattice: Photon subdiffusion

MirFaez Miri, Zeinab Sadjadi, M. Ebrahim Fouladvand

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/0605353

Abstract

We study the persistent random walk of photons on a one-dimensional lattice of random transmittances. Transmittances at different sites are assumed independent, distributed according to a given probability density f(t). Depending on the behavior of f(t) near t=0, diffusive and subdiffusive transports are predicted by the disorder expansion of the mean square-displacement and the effective medium approximation. Monte Carlo simulations confirm the anomalous diffusion of photons. To observe photon subdiffusion experimentally, we suggest a dielectric film stack for realization of a distribution f(t).

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