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This chapter describes the progress made during the past three decades in the finite size scaling analysis of the critical phenomena of the Anderson transition. The scaling theory of localisation and the Anderson model of localisation are…

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By a simulation study of three-dimensional (3D) and two-dimensional (2D) disordered lattice models in the chiral symplectic class, we show that one-dimensional (1D) weak topology universally induces an intermediate quasi-localized (QL)…

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Anderson localization problem for non-interacting two-dimensional electron gas subject to strong magnetic field, disordered potential and spin-orbit coupling is studied numerically on a square lattice. The nature of the corresponding…

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We investigated the interdependence of the effects of disorder and carrier correlations on the metal-insulator transition in two-dimensional electronic systems. We present a quantitative metal-insulator phase diagram. Depending on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 J. S. Thakur , D. Neilson

Anderson localization is a quantum phenomenon in which disorder localizes electronic wavefunctions. In this work, we propose a new approach to study Anderson localization based on the density matrix formalism. Drawing an analogy to the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-31 Ziyue Qi , Yi Zhang , Mingpu Qin , Hongming Weng , Kun Jiang

We calculated numerically the localization length of one-dimensional Anderson model with diagonal disorder. For weak disorder, we showed that the localization length changes continuously as the energy changes from the band center to the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-19 Kai Kang , Shaojing Qin , Chuilin Wang

In this paper, the influence of the quasidisorder on a two-dimensional system is studied. We find that there exists a topological phase transition accompanied by a transverse Anderson localization. The topological properties are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-08-09 Shujie Cheng , Reza Asgari , Gao Xianlong

Anderson localization of particles -- the complete halt of wave transport through multiple scattering and phase coherence -- is a paradigmatic manifestation of quantum interference in disordered media. In three dimensions, the scaling…

We study the thermal transport properties in three-dimensional disordered systems close to the metal-insulator transition within linear response. Using a suitable form for the energy-dependent conductivity $\sigma$, we show that the value…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-15 C. Villagonzalo , R. A. Römer , M. Schreiber , A. MacKinnon

A one-dimensional boundary of a two-dimensional topological superconductor can host a number of topologically protected chiral modes. Combining two topological superconductors with different topological indices, it is possible to achieve a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Daniil S. Antonenko , Eslam Khalaf , Pavel M. Ostrovsky , Mikhail A. Skvortsov

We consider Anderson localization and the associated metal-insulator transition for non-interacting fermions in D = 1, 2 space dimensions in the presence of spatially correlated on-site random potentials. To assess the nature of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-08-05 Eric C. Andrade , Mark Steudtner , Matthias Vojta

In this paper we analyze the predictions of the forward approximation in some models which exhibit an Anderson (single-) or many-body localized phase. This approximation, which consists in summing over the amplitudes of only the shortest…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-02-10 Francesca Pietracaprina , Valentina Ros , Antonello Scardicchio

Several phenomena related to the critical behaviour of non-interacting electrons in a disordered 2d tight-binding system with a magnetic field are studied. Localization lengths, critical exponents and density of states are computed using…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Marc Ruhlander , C. M. Soukoulis

We study the Anderson transition on a generic model of random graphs with a tunable branching parameter $1<K\le 2$, through large scale numerical simulations and finite-size scaling analysis. We find that a single transition separates a…

We present numerical results for the statistics of $z$'s ($z$'s are defined as logarithm of eigenvalues of the transfermatrix $T^\dag T$) at the critical points of Anderson transition in 3D and 4D. The change of the density of $z$ due to…

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A conducting 1D line or 2D plane inside (or on the surface of) an insulator is considered.Impurities displace the charges inside the insulator. This results in a long-range fluctuating electric field acting on the conducting line (plane).…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 V. V. Flambaum

The two-dimensional hyperbolic plane, $\mathbb{H}^2$, is an unusual system in that dimensionality changes with scale: locally two-dimensional and planar at short distances, but effectively infinite-dimensional at large scales, it provides…

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The scaling behavior of the thermoelectric transport properties in disordered systems is studied in the energy region near the metal-insulator transition. Using an energy-dependent conductivity $\sigma$ obtained experimentally, we extend…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Villagonzalo , R. A. Roemer , M. Schreiber , A. MacKinnon

Based on a selfconsistent theory of localization we study the electron transport properties of a disordered system in the framework of the Anderson model on a Bethe lattice. In the calculation of the dc conductivity we separately discuss…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Alvermann , F. X. Bronold , H. Fehske

We investigate the depinning transition for driven interfaces in the random-field Ising model for various dimensions. We consider the order parameter as a function of the control parameter (driving field) and examine the effect of thermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Roters , S. Lubeck , K. D. Usadel