Resonantly induced dipole-dipole interactions in the diffusion of scalar waves

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Reference B.A. van Tiggelen and A. Lagendijk, Resonantly induced dipole-dipole interactions in the diffusion of scalar waves, Phys. Rev. B 50, 16729-16732 (1994)

The induced dipole-dipole interaction can be understood in terms of recurrent elastic scattering of waves. We implement this notion into transport theory of scalar waves in inhomogeneous dielectric media and calculate rigorously the pivotal cooperative effect of pairs of polarizable dipoles.