Uniformity transition for ray intensities in random media

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AAB161zbMATH Open1397.82024arXiv1711.02972OpenAlexW3172133633MaRDI QIDQ4639622FDOQ4639622

Authors: A. Pumir, Marc Pradas, Michael Wilkinson 

Publication date: 9 May 2018

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

Abstract: This paper analyses a model for the intensity of distribution for rays propagating without absorption in a random medium. The random medium is modelled as a dynamical map. After $N$ iterations, the intensity is modelled as a sum $S$ of $calN$ contributions from different trajectories, each of which is a product of $N$ independent identically distributed random variables $x_k$, representing successive focussing or de-focussing events. The number of ray trajectories reaching a given point is assumed to proliferate exponentially: $calN=Lambd{a}^N$, for some $Lambda>1$. We investigate the probability distribution of $S$. We find a phase transition as parameters of the model are varied. There is a phase where the fluctuations of $S$ are suppressed as $Noinfty$, and a phase where the $S$ has large fluctuations, for which we provide a large deviation analysis.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.02972

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zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionlarge deviationsrandom mediaintensity fluctuautions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Large deviations (60F10) Composite media; random media in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A48) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26)

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