Groundbreaking Simulation Confirms Half-Century-Old Nobel-Winning Wave Theory
If you’ve ever tried to understand the mysteries of wave physics, you may have come across a seemingly elusive phenomenon known as Anderson localization. Proposed back in 1958 by physicist Phillip Anderson, this theory, which earned him a Nobel Prize in 1977, describes how waves behave when they encounter multiple obstacles in a disordered material. Yet despite its potential impact across fields, Anderson localization has largely remained a theoretical concept due to the complexities of confirming it experimentally and the...