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Kenta Esaki1, Masatoshi Sato, Mahito Kohmoto
1Institute for Solid State Physics, Kashiwanoha 5-1-5, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan.
Abstract:
Propagation of waves through Cantor-set media is investigated by renormalization-group analysis. For specific values of wave numbers, transmission coefficients are shown to be governed by the logistic map and, in the chaotic region, they show sensitive dependence on small changes in parameters of the system such as the index of refraction. For other values of wave numbers, our numerical results suggest that light transmits completely or reflects completely by the Cantor-set media Cinfinity. It is also shown that transmission coefficients exhibit a local scaling behavior near complete transmission if the complete transmission is achieved at a wave number kappa=kappa* with a rational kappa*/pi. The scaling function is obtained analytically by using the Euler totient function, and the local scaling behavior is confirmed numerically.
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