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The density matrix is introduced to describe a wave in a random medium. The spatial and temporal evolution is analysed in terms of eigenmatrices of the disordered system and a transition in the type of behaviour is found, at a critical value of the disorder above which all wavelength density fluctuations increase exponentially in space or time.
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J. B. Pendry (1982) studied this question.
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