Experimental observation of the mobility edge in a waveguide with correlated disorder

Abstract

The tight-binding model with correlated disorder introduced by Izrailev and Krokhin [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4062 (1999)] has been extended to the Kronig–Penney model. The results of the calculations have been compared with microwave transmission spectra through a single-mode waveguide with inserted correlated scatterers. All predicted bands and mobility edges have been found in the experiment, thus demonstrating that any wanted combination of transparent and nontransparent frequency intervals can be realized experimentally by introducing appropriate correlations between scatterers.