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Nonlinear coherent transport of waves in disordered media

Thomas Wellens and Benoît Grémaud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 033902 (2008)

We present a diagrammatic theory for coherent backscattering from disordered dilute media in the nonlinear regime. We show that the coherent backscattering enhancement factor is strongly affected by the nonlinearity, and corroborate these results by numerical simulations. Our theory can be applied to several physical scenarios like scattering of light in nonlinear Kerr media, or propagation of matter waves in disordered potentials.