Lyapunov exponents and localization in randomly layered media

DOI10.1006/jcph.1997.5643zbMath0876.65023OpenAlexW2064914877WikidataQ108773066 ScholiaQ108773066MaRDI QIDQ1360388

John A. Scales, Erik S. Van Vleck

Publication date: 20 November 1997

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/75f290277c559eed7006ffcbd50f3edf76072892

zbMATH Keywords

wave propagationscatteringdisordered systemsLyapunov spectrumlattice dynamical systemsIsing spin systemsproducts of random transfer matrices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical computation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices (65F15) Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40) Characteristic and Lyapunov exponents of ordinary differential equations (34D08) Random matrices (algebraic aspects) (15B52) Dynamics of disordered systems (random Ising systems, etc.) in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C44) Numerical solution of eigenvalue problems involving ordinary differential equations (65L15)

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