Published October 15, 1995 | Version v1
Journal article

Transport velocity in two-dimensional random media

  • 1. Institut fuer Theorie der Kondensierten Materie, Universitaet Karlsruhe, 76128, Karlsruhe (Germany)
  • 2. Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011 (United States)
  • 3. Research Center of Crete, Foundation for Research Technolog-Hellas (FORTH) and Department of Physics, University of Crete, P.O. Box 1527, 71110 Heraklion, Crete (Greece)

Description

We study the transport properties of a two-dimensional randomly disordered dielectric medium. The medium consists of infinitely long dielectric cylinders with a real dielectric constant εa, embedded in a different dielectric medium with εb=1. The transport velocity is calclated within the low-density approximation of the Bethe-Salpeter equation and within the coated extension of the well-known coherent-potential approximation for a random arrangement of dielectric cylinders. Results for the long-wavelength effective dielectric constant, phase velocity, and transport velocity are presented for both the s and p polarization of electromagnetic waves. In addition, it is found that localization is achieved more easily for the s than for the p polarization

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
52
Journal Issue
15
Journal Page Range
p. 10834-10840.
ISSN
0163-1829
CODEN
PRBMDO