Abstract
Based on Anderson’s discovery of “Absence of diffusion in certain random lattices” the idea of disorder-induced inhibition of wave transport in random media has been elucidated for wave equations other than Schrödinger’s equation, including Maxwell’s equation for electromagnetic waves. While all these phenomena originate from the basic principle of interference due to multiple scattering, the Anderson transition for each type of wave contains different complexities. These differences should be considered in both the theoretical aspects of these studies and the experimental methods for its observation. In this poster, we survey theoretical and experimental investigations of Anderson localization of light and of electrons, putting a comparison between the two fields into perspective.