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A mean-field theory of Anderson localization

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2008-09-16 v1

Abstract

Anderson model of noninteracting disordered electrons is studied in high spatial dimensions. We find that off-diagonal one- and two-particle propagators behave as gaussian random variables w.r.t. momentum summations. With this simplification and with the electron-hole symmetry we reduce the parquet equations for two-particle irreducible vertices to a single algebraic equation for a local vertex. We find a disorder-driven bifurcation point in this equation signalling vanishing of diffusion and onset of Anderson localization. There is no bifurcation in d=1,2d=1,2 where all states are localized. A natural order parameter for Anderson localization pops up in the construction.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0402471,
  title  = {A mean-field theory of Anderson localization},
  author = {V. Janis and J. Kolorenc},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0402471},
  year   = {2008}
}

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