{"paper":{"title":"Can 3D light localization be reached in \"white paint\"?","license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["cond-mat.mes-hall","physics.optics"],"primary_cat":"cond-mat.dis-nn","authors_text":"Christof M. Aegerter, Geoffroy J. Aubry, Georg Maret, Lukas Schertel, Mirco Ackermann, Tilo Sperling","submitted_at":"2015-10-27T20:49:13Z","abstract_excerpt":"When waves scatter multiple times in 3D random media, a disorder driven phase transition from diffusion to localization may occur [Anderson 1958 Phys. Rev. 109 1492-505; Abrahams et al 1979 Phys. Rev. Lett. 42 673-6]. In \"The question of classical localization: A theory of white paint?\" P.W. Anderson suggested the possibility to observe light localization in TiO$_2$ samples [Anderson 1985 Phil. Mag. B 52 505-9]. We recently claimed the observation of localization effects measuring photon time of flight (ToF) distributions [St\\\"orzer et al 2006 Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 063904] and evaluating transmi"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1510.08092","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}