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Phys Rev Lett. 2016 May 13;116(19):193901. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.193901. Epub 2016 May 13.

Anderson Mobility Gap Probed by Dynamic Coherent Backscattering.

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L A Cobus, S E Skipetrov, A Aubry, B A van Tiggelen, A Derode, J H Page

Affiliations

  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada.
  2. Université Grenoble Alpes, LPMMC, F-38000 Grenoble, France.
  3. CNRS, LPMMC, F-38000 Grenoble, France.
  4. Institut Langevin, ESPCI ParisTech, CNRS UMR 7587, Université Denis Diderot-Paris 7, 1 rue Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France.

PMID: 27232022 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.193901

Abstract

We use dynamic coherent backscattering to study one of the Anderson mobility gaps in the vibrational spectrum of strongly disordered three-dimensional mesoglasses. Comparison of experimental results with the self-consistent theory of localization allows us to estimate the localization (correlation) length as a function of frequency in a wide spectral range covering bands of diffuse transport and a mobility gap delimited by two mobility edges. The results are corroborated by transmission measurements on one of our samples.

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