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Renormalization group for Anderson localization on high-dimensional lattices

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2025-08-27 v3 Statistical Mechanics Quantum Physics

Abstract

We discuss the dependence of the critical properties of the Anderson model on the dimension dd in the language of β\beta-function and renormalization group recently introduced in Ref.[arXiv:2306.14965] in the context of Anderson transition on random regular graphs. We show how in the delocalized region, including the transition point, the one-parameter scaling part of the β\beta-function for the fractal dimension D1D_{1} evolves smoothly from its d=2d=2 form, in which β20\beta_2\leq 0, to its β0\beta_\infty\geq 0 form, which is represented by the regular random graph (RRG) result. We show how the ϵ=d2\epsilon=d-2 expansion and the 1/d1/d expansion around the RRG result can be reconciled and how the initial part of a renormalization group trajectory governed by the irrelevant exponent yy depends on dimensionality. We also show how the irrelevant exponent emerges out of the high-gradient terms of expansion in the nonlinear sigma-model and put forward a conjecture about a lower bound for the fractal dimension. The framework introduced here may serve as a basis for investigations of disordered many-body systems and of more general non-equilibrium quantum systems.

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@article{arxiv.2403.01974,
  title  = {Renormalization group for Anderson localization on high-dimensional lattices},
  author = {Boris L. Altshuler and Vladimir E. Kravtsov and Antonello Scardicchio and Piotr Sierant and Carlo Vanoni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.01974},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

13 pages, 12 figures. Comments are welcome!

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