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EPL
Volume 101, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
EPL ASSOCIATION, EUROPEAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/101/67002
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- DGAPA-UNAM [IN113011, IN111311]
- CONACYT [79613, 82474]
- DGAPA UNAM [IN-117712-3]
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We study, both experimentally and numerically, the Anderson localization phenomenon in torsional waves of a disordered elastic rod, which consists of a cylinder with randomly spaced notches. We find that the normal-mode wave amplitudes are exponentially localized as occurs in disordered solids. The localization length, measured using these wave amplitudes, decreases as a function of frequency. The normal-mode spectrum is also measured as well as computed, so its level statistics can be analyzed. From the spectrum, the nearest-neighbor spacing distribution can be obtained. This distribution can be described by a phenomenological expression that depends on a parameter a, related to the level repulsion, which is also a function of the frequency. Therefore, the localization length can be expressed in terms of the parameter a. There exists a range in which the localization length grows linearly with a. However, at low values of this parameter the linear dependence does not hold. Copyright (C) EPLA, 2013
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