| dc.contributor.author | King, CG | |
| dc.contributor.author | Horsley, SAR | |
| dc.contributor.author | Philbin, TG | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-04-04T11:48:12Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-04-17 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The transmission of a wave through a randomly chosen `pile of plates' typically decreases expo-
nentially with the number of plates, a phenomenon closely related to Anderson localisation. In ap-
parent contradiction we construct disordered planar permittivity pro les which are complex-valued
(i.e. have reactive and dissipative properties) that appear to vary randomly with position, yet are
one-way re
ectionless for all angles of incidence and exhibit a transmission coe cient of unity. In
addition to these complex-valued 'random' planar permittivity pro les, we construct a family of
real-valued, two-way re
ectionless and perfectly transmitting disordered permittivity pro les that
function only for a single angle of incidence and a narrow frequency range. | en_GB |
| dc.description.sponsorship | C. G. K. acknowledges financial support from the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Electromagnetic Metamaterials Grant No. EP/L015331/1. S. A. R. H. acknowledges financial support from EPSRC program Grant No. EP/I034548/1, the Royal Society, and TATA. T. G. P. acknowledges financial support from EPSRC program Grant No. EP/I034548/1. The authors acknowledge useful discussions about localization in disordered media with J. Bertolotti. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 118, article 163201 | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.163201 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/26969 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
| dc.publisher | American Physical Society | en_GB |
| dc.title | Perfect transmission through disordered media | en_GB |
| dc.type | Article | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0031-9007 | |
| dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from American Physical Society via the DOI in this record. | |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 1079-7114 | |
| dc.identifier.journal | Physical Review Letters | en_GB |
