Anderson localization of classical waves in weakly scattering metamaterials
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Ara A. Asatryan,1 Sergey A. Gredeskul,2,3 Lindsay C. Botten,1 Michael A. Byrne,1 Valentin D. Freilikher,4 Ilya V. Shadrivov,3 Ross C. McPhedran,5 and Yuri S. Kivshar3 1Department of Mathematical Sciences and Centre for Ultrahigh-Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), University of Technology, Sydney, New South Wales 2007, Australia 2Department of Physics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel 3Nonlinear Physics Center and CUDOS, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200, Australia 4Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Raman-Gan 52900, Israel 5School of Physics and CUDOS, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia Received 14 December 2009; revised manuscript received 28 January 2010; published 26 February 2010
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