Average transmission probability of a random stack

DOI10.1088/0143-0807/31/1/005MaRDI QIDQ3551052zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yin Lu, Christian Miniatura, Berthold-Georg Englert

Publication date 8 April 2010

Published in European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.5557

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric optics (78A05) Physical optics (78A10)

Abstract: The transmission through a stack of identical slabs that are separated by gaps with random widths is usually treated by calculating the average of the logarithm of the transmission probability. We show how to calculate the average of the transmission probability itself with the aid of a recurrence relation and derive analytical upper and lower bounds. The upper bound, when used as an approximation for the transmission probability, is unreasonably good and we conjecture that it is asymptotically exact.

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