Origin of light scattering from disordered systems

P. Benassi, W. Frizzera, M. Montagna, G. Viliani, V. Mazzacurati, G. Ruocco and G. Signorelli

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1995, vol. 216, issue 1, 32-44

Abstract: Anelastic light scattering is computed numerically for model disordered systems (linear chains and 2-dimensional site and bond percolators), with and without electrical disorder. A detailed analysis of the vibrational modes and of their Raman activity evidences that two extreme mechanism for scattering may be singled out. One of these resembles scattering from finite size systems, while the other mechanisms originate from spatial fluctuations of the polarizability and is such that modes in even small frequency intervals may have very different Raman activities. As a consequence, the average coupling coefficient C(ω) is the variance of a zero-average quantity. Our analysis shows that for both linear chains and 2-dimensional percolators the second mechanism dominates over the first, and therefore Raman scattering from disordered systems is essentially due to spatial fluctuations.

Date: 1995
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(95)00055-C

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