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Commensurability effects in one-dimensional Anderson localization: anomalies in eigenfunction statistics

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2015-05-20 v2

Abstract

The one-dimensional (1d) Anderson model (AM) has statistical anomalies at any rational point f=2a/λEf=2a/\lambda_{E}, where aa is the lattice constant and λE\lambda_{E} is the de Broglie wavelength. We develop a regular approach to anomalous statistics of normalized eigenfunctions ψ(r)\psi(r) at such commensurability points. The approach is based on an exact integral transfer-matrix equation for a generating function Φr(u,ϕ)\Phi_{r}(u, \phi) (uu and ϕ\phi have a meaning of the squared amplitude and phase of eigenfunctions, rr is the position of the observation point). The descender of the generating function Pr(ϕ)Φr(u=0,ϕ){\cal P}_{r}(\phi)\equiv\Phi_{r}(u=0,\phi) is shown to be the distribution function of phase which determines the Lyapunov exponent and the local density of states. In the leading order in the small disorder we have derived a second-order partial differential equation for the rr-independent ("zero-mode") component Φ(u,ϕ)\Phi(u, \phi) at the E=0E=0 (f=12f=\frac{1}{2}) anomaly. This equation is nonseparable in variables uu and ϕ\phi. Yet, we show that due to a hidden symmetry, it is integrable and we construct an exact solution for Φ(u,ϕ)\Phi(u, \phi) explicitly in quadratures. Using this solution we have computed moments Im=N<ψ2m>I_{m}=N<|\psi|^{2m}> (m1m\geq 1) for a chain of the length NN \rightarrow \infty and found an essential difference between their mm-behavior in the center-of-band anomaly and for energies outside this anomaly. Outside the anomaly the "extrinsic" localization length defined from the Lyapunov exponent coincides with that defined from the inverse participation ratio ("intrinsic" localization length). This is not the case at the E=0E=0 anomaly where the extrinsic localization length is smaller than the intrinsic one.

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@article{arxiv.1011.1480,
  title  = {Commensurability effects in one-dimensional Anderson localization: anomalies in eigenfunction statistics},
  author = {V. E. Kravtsov and V. I. Yudson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.1480},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

33 pages, four figures

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