English

Two-dimensional Non-Hermitian Delocalization Transition as a Probe for the Localization Length

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2017-10-23 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

When one applies a type of non-Hermitian effect, constant imaginary vector potential, to disordered systems, delocalization is induced even in two or lower dimension. By using the non-Hermitian induced transition as a probe, We propose a new procedure of estimating localization in arbitrary-dimensional systems. By examining numerically the two-dimensional non-Hermitian tight-biding model with onsite disorder, it is shown that the failure of absorbing the non-Hermitian effect, namely the breakdown of the imaginary gauge transformation, characterize the inverse localization length near the band center.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0111394,
  title  = {Two-dimensional Non-Hermitian Delocalization Transition as a Probe for the Localization Length},
  author = {Tsunenao Kuwae and Nobuhiko Taniguchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0111394},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

4 pages, 4 figs

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