Delocalization transition for light in two dimensions
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| author | Lucas, Sébastien Miniatura, Christian Skipetrov, Sergey E. |
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| contents | Common belief, confirmed by existing experiments, is that arbitrarily weak disorder should lead to spatial localization of eigenmodes of scalar wave equations when wave propagation is two-dimensional (2D). We predict that contrary to this belief, a localization-delocalization transition can take place for light scattered by two-level atoms placed at random positions in the middle plane of a parallel-plate 2D waveguide fed by its fundamental transverse-magnetic (TM) mode (electric field polarized perpendicular to the waveguide and atomic planes). This transition, driven by near-field dipole-dipole interactions between atoms, occurs upon increasing the areal number density of atoms beyond some critical value. A finite-size scaling analysis of the transition yields an estimate of its critical exponent $ν$ = 1.4 $\pm$ 0.2. |
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| spellingShingle | Delocalization transition for light in two dimensions Lucas, Sébastien Miniatura, Christian Skipetrov, Sergey E. Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Optics Common belief, confirmed by existing experiments, is that arbitrarily weak disorder should lead to spatial localization of eigenmodes of scalar wave equations when wave propagation is two-dimensional (2D). We predict that contrary to this belief, a localization-delocalization transition can take place for light scattered by two-level atoms placed at random positions in the middle plane of a parallel-plate 2D waveguide fed by its fundamental transverse-magnetic (TM) mode (electric field polarized perpendicular to the waveguide and atomic planes). This transition, driven by near-field dipole-dipole interactions between atoms, occurs upon increasing the areal number density of atoms beyond some critical value. A finite-size scaling analysis of the transition yields an estimate of its critical exponent $ν$ = 1.4 $\pm$ 0.2. |
| title | Delocalization transition for light in two dimensions |
| topic | Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22919 |