Light scattering in disordered and nonreciprocal media

Resumen

The statistical properties of light emission and transport in disordered media have been a matter of intense research since the foundation of the electromagnetic theory. Questions such as Anderson localization of light are the heart of open problems in physics. In the context of coherent electron trnsport it was shown that the dimensionality of the problema plays a crucial role as stated in the scaling theory of localization. In photonoic crystals, it has been argued that localization can be induce in disordered photonic crystals: At certain frequencies, the available photonic phase-space es modified, with respect to the vacuum one, in such a way that a localization transition might happen. I has been recognized since decades ago, that correlations in a disordered médium play an essential role in the wave transport properties. In solid state physics, the conductivity of liquid metals, not showing cristal ordering, can be explained by the short rage structural correlations of the liquid. Also in photonic systems, it has been shown that short-range structural correlations govern the light trnasport properties in systems ranging from cornea transparency to "stealthy" hyperuniform materials. (extracto del informe del Doctor D. Luis Salvador Froufe Pérez)