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Delay-time statistics for diffuse waves B. A. van Tiggelen, 1 P. Sebbah, 2 M. Stoytchev, 3 and A. Z. Genack 3 1 Laboratoire de Physique et Mode ´lisation des Milieux Condense ´s, CNRS/Maison de Magiste `res, Universite ´ Joseph Fourier, Boı ˆte Postale 166, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France 2 Laboratoire de Physique de la Matie `re Condense ´e/CNRS, Universite ´ de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Parc Valrose, 06108 Nice Cedex 02, France 3 Department of Physics, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, New York 11367 ~Received 28 January 1999! We formulate a theory for the statistics of the dynamics of a classical wave propagating in random media by analyzing the frequency derivative of the phase under the assumption of a Gaussian process. We calculate frequency correlations and probability distribution functions of dynamical quantities, as well the first non- Gaussian C 2 correction. In A. Z. Genack, P. Sebbah, M. Stoytchev, and B. A. van Tiggelen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 715 ~1999!, microwave measurements have been performed to which this theory applies. @S1063-651X~99!04506-7# PACS number~s!: 42.25.2p I. SCOPE Fluctuations in wave propagation in disordered media are extensively treated in standard references @2,3#. Perhaps the best known feature is the apparently Gaussian statistics of the complex wave field, with real and imaginary parts as independent variables. This results in the familiar Rayleigh statistics P ( I ) ;exp(2I/^I&) of the intensity I . The Gaussian process is a natural consequence of the central limit theorem if one assumes that the complex field results from a coherent superposition of many independent wave trajectories. Modern speckle theory, founded in the 1980s and still developing rapidly, changes this simple picture considerably @3,4#. New features in speckle statistics have been observed such as short- and long-range intensity correlations, e.g., in frequency @5# or time @6#, the memory effect @7#, universal fluctuations @8,9#, and non-Rayleigh statistics @10# for the intensity, many of these explained in terms of non-Gaussian field statistics. An old tool from nuclear physics, random matrix theory ~RMT!, has been successfully introduced in this field and seems to capture many ‘‘universal’’ aspects @11#. Only recently, RMT has solved the fundamental prob- lem of the statistical properties of the so-called phase delay times—which for classical waves are the derivatives of the phase shifts of the S matrix with respect to frequency d f / d v —at least for chaotic billiards where Dyson circular ensembles are known to apply @12,13#. The applicability of the Dyson RMT in disordered systems has been estimated to hold for energies small compared to the Thouless energy @14#. Pioneering work by Dorokhov @15# and Mello, Pereyra, and Kumar @16# extended RMT to disordered wires. The extension of DMPK theory towards dynamical problems is under active investigation @17,18#. The popularity of the phase derivative d f / d v stems from its interpretation as a time delay in scattering @19#. This quantity describes the dynamics of a very narrow-band wave packet. In homogeneous media it relates directly to the group velocity v G @20# whereas in random media its ensemble av- erage is inversely proportional the transport velocity v E fig- uring in the diffusion constant of the average intensity @22#. Unlike v E , however, d f / d v can be considered for arbitrary realizations. The restriction to narrow-band wave packets in- troduces sometimes apparently interpretational problems, such as negative group velocities or negative delay times, that have been extensively studied in literature @21#. The phase delay time relates directly to a fundamental dynamic quantity in condensed matter, namely the number of states per frequency interval d v inside the scattering me- dium N ( v ) @23#, 1 p ( a , b 2 M I ab d f ab d v 5N ~ v ! , ~1! where A I ab exp(if ab )[t ab is the complex transition amplitude from mode a to b . Unlike the summation in the Landauer formula for conductance, the summation runs over the M channels in both reflection and transmission. Equation ~1! is a manifestation of Friedel’s theorem @24#, originally devised for screening problems in the solid state, though with elegant applications to many scattering problems @25–27#, including ones in RMT @28#. Alt’shuler and Shklovskii @14# demon- strated the central role of the statistics of N ( v ) in the under- standing of the relation between level repulsion—described as a concept in RMT—and universal conductance fluctua- tions, a basic element in modern speckle theory, a relation confirmed numerically @17#. It is crucial that the density of states in an open ~scattering! medium is ill-defined due to the finite ~Thouless! width of the levels. As shown in Ref. @23#, the left-hand side of Eq. ~1! is well-defined and proportional to the integral * d ru c v ( r) u 2 over the sample, which is— within the original Friedel argument—recognized as the ‘‘stored charge.’’ For light it equals the stored electromag- netic energy @27#. Though not free from controversy, Eq. ~1! calls for the interpretation of W ab [I ab d f ab / d v as the weighted delay time for a transition from channel a to b @29#, to be distin- guished from the ‘‘proper’’ delay times defined as the eigen- values of the Wigner-Smith matrix Q52i S* ] S/ ]v , and its trace Tr Q5 ( a , b W ab 5p N ( v ), called the Heisenberg PHYSICAL REVIEW E JUNE 1999 VOLUME 59, NUMBER 6 PRE 59 1063-651X/99/59~6!/7166~7!/$15.00 7166 ©1999 The American Physical Society

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PHYSICAL REVIEW E JUNE 1999VOLUME 59, NUMBER 6

Delay-time statistics for diffuse waves

B. A. van Tiggelen,1 P. Sebbah,2 M. Stoytchev,3 and A. Z. Genack31Laboratoire de Physique et Mode´lisation des Milieux Condense´s, CNRS/Maison de Magiste`res, Universite´ Joseph Fourier,

Boıte Postale 166, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France2Laboratoire de Physique de la Matie`re Condense´e/CNRS, Universite´ de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Parc Valrose,

06108 Nice Cedex 02, France3Department of Physics, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, New York 11367

~Received 28 January 1999!

We formulate a theory for the statistics of the dynamics of a classical wave propagating in random media byanalyzing the frequency derivative of the phase under the assumption of a Gaussian process. We calculatefrequency correlations and probability distribution functions of dynamical quantities, as well the first non-GaussianC2 correction. In A. Z. Genack, P. Sebbah, M. Stoytchev, and B. A. van Tiggelen, Phys. Rev. Lett.82, 715 ~1999!, microwave measurements have been performed to which this theory applies.@S1063-651X~99!04506-7#

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Fluctuations in wave propagation in disordered mediaextensively treated in standard references@2,3#. Perhaps thebest known feature is the apparently Gaussian statisticthe complex wave field, with real and imaginary partsindependent variables. This results in the familiar RaylestatisticsP(I );exp(2I/^I&) of the intensityI . The Gaussianprocess is a natural consequence of the central limit theoif one assumes that the complex field results from a cohesuperposition of many independent wave trajectories.

Modern speckle theory, founded in the 1980s and sdeveloping rapidly, changes this simple picture considera@3,4#. New features in speckle statistics have been obsesuch as short- and long-range intensity correlations, e.gfrequency@5# or time @6#, the memory effect@7#, universalfluctuations@8,9#, and non-Rayleigh statistics@10# for theintensity, many of these explained in terms of non-Gaussfield statistics. An old tool from nuclear physics, randomatrix theory ~RMT!, has been successfully introducedthis field and seems to capture many ‘‘universal’’ aspe@11#. Only recently, RMT has solved the fundamental prolem of the statistical properties of the so-called phase detimes—which for classical waves are the derivatives ofphase shifts of theS matrix with respect to frequencdf/dv—at least for chaotic billiards where Dyson circulensembles are known to apply@12,13#. The applicability ofthe Dyson RMT in disordered systems has been estimatehold for energies small compared to the Thouless ene@14#. Pioneering work by Dorokhov@15# and Mello, Pereyra,and Kumar @16# extended RMT to disordered wires. Thextension of DMPK theory towards dynamical problemsunder active investigation@17,18#.

The popularity of the phase derivativedf/dv stems fromits interpretation as a time delay in scattering@19#. Thisquantity describes the dynamics of a very narrow-band wpacket. In homogeneous media it relates directly to the grvelocity vG @20# whereas in random media its ensemble aerage is inversely proportional the transport velocityvE fig-uring in the diffusion constant of the average intensity@22#.

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Unlike vE , however,df/dv can be considered for arbitrarrealizations. The restriction to narrow-band wave packetstroduces sometimes apparently interpretational problesuch as negative group velocities or negative delay timthat have been extensively studied in literature@21#.

The phase delay time relates directly to a fundamendynamic quantity in condensed matter, namely the numbestates per frequency intervaldv inside the scattering medium N(v) @23#,

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dfab

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whereAI abexp(ifab)[tab is the complex transition amplitudfrom modea to b. Unlike the summation in the Landaueformula for conductance, the summation runs over theMchannels in both reflection and transmission. Equation~1! isa manifestation of Friedel’s theorem@24#, originally devisedfor screening problems in the solid state, though with elegapplications to many scattering problems@25–27#, includingones in RMT@28#. Alt’shuler and Shklovskii@14# demon-strated the central role of the statistics ofN(v) in the under-standing of the relation between level repulsion—describas a concept in RMT—and universal conductance flucttions, a basic element in modern speckle theory, a relaconfirmed numerically@17#. It is crucial that the density ofstates in an open~scattering! medium is ill-defined due to thefinite ~Thouless! width of the levels. As shown in Ref.@23#,the left-hand side of Eq.~1! is well-defined and proportionato the integral*dr ucv(r )u2 over the sample, which is—within the original Friedel argument—recognized as t‘‘stored charge.’’ For light it equals the stored electromanetic energy@27#.

Though not free from controversy, Eq.~1! calls for theinterpretation ofWab[I abdfab /dv as the weighted delaytime for a transition from channela to b @29#, to be distin-guished from the ‘‘proper’’ delay times defined as the eigevalues of the Wigner-Smith matrixQ52 iS* •]S/]v, andits trace TrQ5(a,bWab5pN(v), called the Heisenberg

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time tH . The channel averagetH/2M is associated withtheWigner-Smith phase delay timetW . Finally, one could calldfab /dv the single channel delay time for a transition frochannela to b, irrespectivethe transition probabilityI ab .

The intention of this work is to formulate a statistictheory for the dynamical matrix elementsdfab /dv andWabfor diffuse waves, using concepts developed for the stcross sectionI ab @4#. This theory can be applied equally weto phenomena involving phase variations with other vaables. The choice of frequency is stimulated by microwaexperiments@1,30#. We shall adopt the ‘‘C1 approximation,’’which is known to work best for the static ‘‘one channin–one channel out’’ matrix elementI ab ~provided the con-ductanceg5M l /L@1), but which as far as we know hanot been worked out for dynamic quantities suchdfab /dv andWab . The summation(bWab equals thediag-onal elementQaa of the Wigner-Smith matrix and may, likethe total transmission(bTab from channela, be subject toC2 correlations@5#. It is known that even a Gaussian procecontains phase correlations between speckle spots@31#. Thelast section of this work will address the first results forC2frequency correlations in the dynamic matrix elementWab .As yet, we have not been able to formulate a non-Gaustheory for dfab /dv. We note, however, that experimenhave shown this quantity to be highly Gaussian@1#.

II. GAUSSIAN APPROXIMATION

The C1 approximation is equivalent to the assumptiona circular complex Gaussian process@2# of the complex settab . A circular process forK complex field amplitudesEi(b)5tab( i )Ei

in(a) requires that Ei&50 and that^Ei Ej&50. The indexi here labelsK different frequencies for agiven channel transitionab. The joint distribution is givenby

P~E1 ,...,EK!51

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EiCi j21Ej D , ~2!

where Ci j 5^EiEj& is the Hermitian variance matrix. Wshall normalize EjEj&51 for all j , assuming I j&51 to beindependent ofj . For small frequency differencev12v25v, we can make the expansionC12511 iav1bv2

1O(v3), wherea and b can be calculated from diffusiontheory @4,32#, which involves the diffusion constantD,sample lengthL, absorption lengthLa , and transport veloc-ity vE . The latter contains the Wigner delay time of thscattering objects@22# and thus forms the crucial link between microdynamics and macrodynamics.

Probability distributions can be derived forK52 using achange of variablesEj5Aj exp(ifj). As v→0, the stochasticvariables can be chosen asI 5A2, f8[dfab /dv, R[d ln Aab/dv, andfab . Integrating out the phase shiftfabyields for the joint distribution,

P~ I ,f8,R!5I

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fThe distribution functionally depends on a single parameQ[22b/a221.0, which is shown in Fig. 1 as a functioof absorptionL/La . From the diffusion formula forC(V) intransmission used in Ref.@4#, it follows that

Q5X222 sinh2 X1 ~ 1

2 ! X sinh 2X

~X coshX2sinhX!2, ~4!

with X5L/La .In the absence of absorption, the mean delay time^f8&

5a equals the diffuse traversal timeL2/6D for waves intransmission, and 4L/3vE in reflection. In Fig. 1 we see how^f8& decays as absorption comes in. Measuring^f8& in re-flection and transmission would give access to both transmean free pathl 53D/vE and transport velocityvE .

Even in the Gaussian approximation,I andf8 are corre-lated observables. For constant intensityI the delay time isnormally distributed with spreadDf8/^f8&5AQ/2I . Thishas been confirmed experimentally@1#. The phase in darkpoints becomes ill-defined@31#, which causes strong fluctuations inf8 at low intensities. Upon integration overI andRone finds

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@Q1~f821!2#3/2. ~5!

This algebraic law agrees with experimental data for micwaves in transmission@1# oversevenorders of magnitude. Ithas the property that(f8)2&5`, though any finite fre-quency gridDv transforms this divergence into a finite valu2 ln Dv. From Eq. ~3!, we find for the distribution of thedynamic matrix elementWab ,

FIG. 1. Several parameters which appear in the statistics ofdelay time are shown as functions of the absorptionL/La in trans-mission through a thick slab of lengthL. Dashed vertical linesestimate their values in the experiments of Refs.@1# and @30#. Thefunction F1(0) denotes the short range ‘‘C1’’ contribution to^W2&2^W&2; (1/g)F2(0) is the non-Gaussian ‘‘C2’’ contributionobserved in Ref.@1#. Q is the dimensionless parameter determinithe probability distribution of the quantitiesW andf8; the averagedelay time^fv8 & has been normalized to the diffuse traversal timL2/6D. The relation (Dfn)2;^fn& for the cumulative phase afrequencyn is given by Eq.~15!.

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The Heaviside functionu(x) vanishes forx,0 and equals 1for x.0. The average W&5^I &^f8&;L/2MvE both intransmission and reflection. Like the intensityI , W has anexponential distribution but unlikeI it can take negative values. Though less probable, the existence of negative ‘lay’’ times is an interesting feature that is also observedexperiments@1# and is allowed by scattering theory@19#. ByEq. ~3! these are most probable in ‘‘dark spots.’’ In tranmission from a thick slab without absorptionQ52/5 and

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III. GAUSSIAN THEORYFOR FREQUENCY CORRELATIONS

Correlation functions at two close frequencies providesensitive test of the validity of the Gaussian approximationthe experiment. Frequency correlations offab8 andWab canbe obtained from Eq.~2! with K54 at the frequenciesn6v/26V/2 in the limit v→0. The correlation matrix weneed to study is

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C~v,V!5S 1 C~v! C~V! C~V1v!

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For v50 this matrix contains a doubly degenerated eigenvaluel1,250 and two eigenvaluesl3,4(V)5262uC(V)u. For v→0 one gets

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with z(V)[C9(V)@12uC(V)u2#2a2C(V)12iaC8(V)1C(V)C8(V)2. The corresponding four eigenfunctions can be drived straightforwardly, among which the first two will be required to orderv, as customary in second-order perturbatitheory. A careful analysis forv→0 in the subspace spanned by the first two eigenvectors shows that the joint distributithe four complex fields can be transformed into

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l3uA11A3 exp~ if131 i t!u23exp2

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and g1(V)[C(V)C8(V)1 ia, g2(V)[ iaC(V)2C8(V).Equation~9! implies many correlations between amplitudephase, and phase derivatives, only two of which we sdiscuss. We remark that it is straightforward to integratethe amplitude derivativesA1,38 .

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A. Id f/dv frequency correlation

The calculation of the normalized frequency correlatifunction of Wab[I abdfab /dv involves straightforward in-tegrations of Eq.~9! that can all be done analytically,

^Wab~n2V/2!Wab~n1V/2!&c

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[F1~V!. ~11!

This result can be obtained more easily using a methodwill be introduced later to calculate long-range correlatio

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using the Gaussian rules to evaluate a correlation involvfour fields.

The variance (DWab)25F1(0) has been plotted in Fig. 1

as a function of absorption and in transmission. Withoutsorption, the diffusion approximation forC(V) in transmis-sion @4# predictsF1(0)56/5. For largeV one can show tha

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The derivation of the frequency correlation function fthe single channel delay timefab8 (n) involves more work.After analytically integrating out the amplitude derivativeA1,38 , an integral over the phase shiftf13 remains that mustbe done numerically. Equation~9! finally yields

K df

dv~n2V/2!ab

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As V→0, Eq.~12! predicts a logarithmic divergence, noencountered in intensity correlation functions. For large fquency shifts, we find that

Cf~V!5uC~V!u2 ~ uCu!1!, ~13!

i.e., Cf becomes identical to theC1 intensity correlationfunction which decays exponentially. In Ref.@1# the correla-tion function ~12! has been compared to experiment, inregime where the intensity is known to be subject to lanon-Gaussian fluctuations. The excellent agreement betwEqs.~5! and~12! and experimental data seems to excludeexistence of non-Gaussian~long-range! correlations in thesingle channel phase delay timedfab /dv. At present wehave no easy explanation for this phenomenon. In Fig. 2show the correlation functionCf(V) for different absorptionlengths.

The V integral of the phase-delay correlationCf(V) isrequired for the varianceDfn of the cumulativephase. Thelatter is defined as

fab~n![En0

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with respect to some reference frequencyn0 . The short-range frequency correlation ofdf/dv ensures that to a gooapproximationf(v) is Gaussian distributed with a variancproportional to its average@30#. The relation Df(v)2

5K^f(v)& has been verified experimentally for several frquencies@30#, whereK was seen to be more or less indepedent of frequency. It is easy to show that

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IV. NON-GAUSSIAN FREQUENCY CORRELATIONSIN I Df/Dv

Consider the frequency correlation function of four fieand introduce

D~n,v,V!

[^En2V/22v/2En2V/21v/2* En1V/21v/2En1V/22v/2* &

2^En2V/22v/2En2V/21v/2* En1V/22v/2En1V/21v/2* &.

~16!

FIG. 2. Correlation function with frequency of the phase detime df/dv, on the basis of Gaussian theory. Different valuesthe absorptionL/La have been considered. The frequency has bscaled with the ensemble average delay time.

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The following identity is straightforward to prove:

^Wn2V/2Wn1V/2&5 limv→0

D~n,v,V!

2v2. ~17!

In the GaussianC1 approximation, one decouples all fieaverages into the two-field averageC(V)[^En2VEn1V* &.Some algebra then confirms Eq.~11!. We will use Eq.~17! tofind the first non-Gaussian correction to this correlation fution, to be referred to asF2(V).

The standard recipe for calculating four-field correlatoin the C2 approximation has been described by Berkovand Feng@4#. We will follow their analysis and notationwith the technical difference that we will deal with fou~rather than two! different frequencies. The mechanism rsponsible for the non-Gaussian correlation is an exchangmomenta among the four fields, as described by the fopoint Hikami box H(q1 ,q2 ,q3 ,q5) ~Fig. 3!. Such an eventmakes different wave trajectories correlated and wouldexcluded by Gaussian statistics. The correct expressionthe vertexH was given by Nieuwenhuizen and Van Rossu@33#,

H~q1 ,q2 ,q3 ,q5!52NH~q1•q21q3•q4!. ~18!

HereNH5l 5/(48pk5). If we denote the four-field correlation by C2(Dn i) we have, in wave number space,

C2~$qi%,$Dn i%!523C1~q1 ,Dn1!C2~q2 ,Dn2!

3H~q1 ,q2 ,q3 ,q5!C3~q3 ,Dn3!

3C4~q4 ,Dn4!. ~19!

For the object in Fig. 3 one has$Dn i%5$v1V,v2V,v,v%. The Fourier transform of this object gives thcorrelations in real space, and finally correlations in tramission or reflection. Following Ref.@4# for transmissionthrough a slab with lengthL and surfaceA@L2, this proce-dure leads to

FIG. 3. Non-Gaussian ‘‘C2’’ correlation of four complex fields@actually the second term in Eq.~16!#, whose frequencies have beeindicated on the right. The channelsa and a8 are two incidentchannels;b andb8 are outgoing channels. In the present paperassumea5a8 andb5b8. The Hikami boxH formally locates theposition where momentum exchange occurs between the four figiving non-Gaussian correlations.Ci denotes the two field correlator ^EE* &, the labels indicating specific frequency differen(V1v, v2V, v, v, respectively!. The mirror image of this dia-gram is not shown but contributes equally. The convention isfields E propagate to the right and their complex conjugatesE* tothe left.

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~20!

In this equationr denotes the position of the Hikami vertein the medium, and$zi%5$l ,l ,L2l ,L2l % denote ap-proximate entrance and exit depths of the four waves inslab. Equation~20! can be transformed into

C2trans~$Dn i%!5u^Tab&u2

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g@ I ~b1 ,b2 ,b3 ,b4!

1I ~b3 ,b3 ,b1 ,b2!#, ~21!

with b i[A2 iDn iL2/D1(L/La)2 and

I ~b1 ,b2 ,b3 ,b4![b1b2

sinhb1•••sinhb4

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dx coshb1~12x!coshb2~12x!

3sinhb3x sinhb4x. ~22!

We have also introduced the average one-channel transsion coefficient Tab&5(3p/Ak2)l /L and the dimensionlesconductanceg5(Ak2/3p)l /L. The normalizedC2 fre-quency correlation functionF2(V) for Wab in transmissioncan now be obtained from Eq.~17!,

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The limit can be carried out analytically. What remains isintegral of the kind~22! that is easily done numerically.

The special caseV50 with no absorption (La5`) canbe handled analytically. The result is

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5214/3g. It can be inferred that delay-time fluctuationcause the fluctuations inW to exceed those ones inI , in boththe C1 andC2 approximations. In Fig. 1 we showF2(0) asa function of absorption. We notice thatF2 is more sensitiveto absorption thanF1 .

In Fig. 4 we show several frequency correlation functiofor Wab ~solid lines! in transmission of a slab without absorption. In contrast to the correlation function off8, nosingularity is encountered atV50. Also shown~dashed! arethe correlation functions of the intensityI ab . These correla-tion functions are similar, but the correlation ofI abfab8 ex-ceeds that ofI ab at small frequency differences, whereasbecomes smaller at large frequencies differences. TheF2

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V. CONCLUSIONS AND PROSPECTS

In conclusion, we have presented a theory for the statisof the phase delay time of diffusing waves starting fromjoint Gaussian distribution for complex fields. The sensitivof phase to parameters other than frequency~e.g., space,time, or magnetic field! may be a useful application of thitheory. We have also presented a non-Gaussian extensiothe statistics ofIdf/dv, i.e., the intensity weighted delatime. The overall conclusion is that the delay time exhiblarge mesoscopic fluctuations. Multichannel correlations,statistics of N(v), and a comparison to random matrtheory are logical continuations of this work. We considthe frequency derivative of the phase, which equalssingle channel delay time in the narrow band limit, to be tbasic statistical dynamical variable. It is a great challengestudy the statistics of arbitrary wave packets.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank Fre´deric Faure, Roger Maynard, Ad Lagendijkand Gabriel Cwilich for discussions. This work was suported by the Groupement de Recherches POAN andNational Science Foundation under Grant Nos. DM9632789 and INT9512975.

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