Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2005-05-23
J.Phys.:Condens.Matter 18,4781-4792 (2006)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Important revisions and expansion caused by a crucial property of $\hat Q$
Scientific paper
10.1088/0953-8984/18/20/002
We study reflection and transmission of waves in a random tight-binding system with absorption or gain for weak disorder, using a scattering matrix formalism. Our aim is to discuss analytically the effects of absorption or gain on the statistics of wave transport. Treating the effects of absorption or gain exactly in the limit of no disorder, allows us to identify short- and long lengths regimes relative to absorption- or gain lengths, where the effects of absorption/gain on statistical properties are essentially different. In the long-lengths regime we find that a weak absorption or a weak gain induce identical statistical corrections in the inverse localization length, but lead to different corrections in the mean reflection coefficient. In contrast, a strong absorption or a strong gain strongly suppress the effect of disorder in identical ways (to leading order), both in the localization length and in the mean reflection coefficient.
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