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There has been a lot of work recently on the transport, localization and fluctuations of electrons in disordered metals.(1) Localization of electrons in a disordered metal is a one body problem and the statistics of the electrons is not important. What is important is that the electron behaves as a wave and localization results from the interference of the various multiply scattered waves. Thus the same phenomena which occur and methods which apply for electrons in disordered metals should be useful for other kinds of waves in disordered media e.g. phonons, spin waves, electromagnetic waves etc. The case of light scattered from a disordered medium is particularly interesting because experiments can easily be carried out and it is possible to observe the interference effects which give rise to localization. In this lecture we will discuss the theory briefly in Section 2, coherent back scattering in 3, intensity correlations and fluctuations in 4 and time dependent effects in 5.
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Stephen, M.J. (1989). Weak Localization, Correlations and Fluctuations in Light Scattering from a Disordered Medium. In: Bishop, A.R., Campbell, D.K., Pnevmatikos, S. (eds) Disorder and Nonlinearity. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 39. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74893-6_14
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