A functional renormalization method for wave propagation in random media

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA77DDMaRDI QIDQ5357467zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Federico Lamagna, Esteban Calzetta

Publication date 8 September 2017

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.03845

zbMATH Keywords

field theory methodsrandom mediawaves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Composite media; random media in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A48) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17)

Abstract: We develop the exact renormalization group approach as a way to evaluate the effective speed of propagation of a scalar wave in a medium with random inhomogeneities. We use the Martin-Siggia-Rose formalism to translate the problem into a non equilibrium field theory one, and then consider a sequence of models with a progressively lower infrared cutoff; in the limit where the cutoff is removed we recover the problem of interest. As a test of the formalism, we compute the effective dielectric constant of an homogeneous medium interspersed with randomly located, interpenetrating bubbles. Already a simple approximation to the renormalization group equations turns out to be equivalent to a self-consistent two-loops evaluation of the effective dielectric constant.

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