Enhancement of localization in one-dimensional random potentials with long-range correlations

U. Kuhl, F. M. Izrailev, A. A. Krokhin

Published 2007-09-10, updated 2008-04-15Version 3

We experimentally study the effect of enhancement of localization in weak one-dimensional random potentials. Our experimental setup is a single mode waveguide with 100 tuneable scatterers periodically inserted into the waveguide. By measuring the amplitudes of transmitted and reflected waves in the spacing between each pair of scatterers, we observe a strong decrease of the localization length when white-noise scatterers are replaced by a correlated arrangement of scatterers.