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In the framework of non-Hermitian photonics, we investigate the interplay between disorder and non-Hermiticity in a one-dimensional Hatano-Nelson lattice. While Anderson localization dictates the wave's evolution in conservative random…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-05-20 E. T. Kokkinakis , K. G. Makris , E. N. Economou

Like a free particle, the initial growth of a broad (relative to lattice spacing) wavepacket placed on an ordered lattice is slow (zero initial slope) and becomes linear in $t$ at long time. On a disordered lattice, the growth is inhibited…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Bingyu Cui , Maxim Sukharev , Abraham Nitzan

Anderson localization is a multiple-scattering phenomenon of linear waves propagating within a disordered medium. Discovered in the late 50s for electrons, it has since been observed experimentally with cold atoms and with classical waves…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-07-10 Guillaume Ricard , Filip Novkoski , Eric Falcon

Special localized wavemodes show up in several physical scenarios including BEC in optical lattices, nonlinear photonic crystals and systems with strong electron-phonon interaction. These result from an underlying nonlinear contribution to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Marcelo L. Lyra , Rodrigo P. A. Lima

A new type of delocalization induced by coherent harmonic perturbations in one-dimensional Anderson-localized disordered systems is investigated. With only a few $M$ frequencies a normal diffusion is realized, but the transition to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-04-14 Hiroaki S. Yamada , Kensuke S. Ikeda

The study of energy transport properties in heterogeneous materials has attracted scientific interest for more than a century, and it continues to offer fundamental and rich questions. One of the unanswered challenges is to extend Anderson…

We study Anderson localization and propagation of partially-spatially incoherent wavepackets in linear disordered potentials, motivated by the insight that interference phenomena resulting from multiple scattering are affected by the…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-27 D. Čapeta , J. Radić , A. Szameit , M. Segev , H. Buljan

The phenomenon of Anderson localization of waves in elastic systems is studied. We analyze this phenomenon in two different set of systems: disordered linear chains of harmonic oscillators and disordered rods which oscillate with torsional…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 R. A. Mendez-Sanchez , L. Gutierrez , A. Morales , J. Flores , A. Diaz-de-Anda , G. Monsivais

We study the chaotic behavior of multidimensional Hamiltonian systems in the presence of nonlinearity and disorder. It is known that any localized initial excitation in a large enough linear disordered system spreads for a finite amount of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-11 Bertin Many Manda

We study the spreading dynamics of an initially localized wave packet in 1D nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger lattices with random potential. It is shown that adding small dielectric coupling to surrounding random medium results in asymptotic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-07-31 Alexander V. Milovanov , Alexander Iomin

We study the phenomena of Anderson localization in the presence of nonlinear interaction on a lattice. A class of nonlinear Schrodinger models with arbitrary power nonlinearity is analyzed. We conceive the various regimes of behavior,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-19 Alexander V. Milovanov , Alexander Iomin

We conduct a numerical investigation into wave propagation and localization in one-dimensional lattices subject to nonlinear disorder, focusing on cases with fixed input conditions. Utilizing a discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-08-30 Ba Phi Nguyen , Kihong Kim

We study the spreading of single-site excitations in one-dimensional disordered Klein-Gordon chains with tunable nonlinearity $|u_{l}|^{\sigma} u_{l}$ for different values of $\sigma$. We perform extensive numerical simulations where wave…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-18 Ch. Skokos , S. Flach

The time evolution of initially localized wavepackets in the discrete Hatano-Nelson lattice displays a rich dynamical structure shaped by the interplay between dispersion and nonreciprocity. Our analysis reveals a characteristic evolution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Sayan Jana , Bertin Many Manda , Vassos Achilleos , Dimitrios J. Frantzeskakis , Lea Sirota

Whether the Anderson localization can survive from the weak enough nonlinear interaction is still an open question. In this Letter, we study the effect of nonlinear interaction on disordered chain based on the wave turbulence theory. It is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-13 Wang Zhen , Fu Weicheng , Zhang Yong , Zhao Hong

We study the characteristics of chaos evolution of initially localized energy excitations in the one-dimensional nonlinear disordered Klein-Gordon lattice of anharmonic oscillators, by computing the time variation of the fundamental…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-11 Charalampos Skokos , Enrico Gerlach , Sergej Flach

We study numerically the effects of nonlinearity on the Anderson localization in lattices with disorder in one and two dimensions. The obtained results show that at moderate strength of nonlinearity an unlimited spreading over the lattice…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-02-09 Ignacio Garcia-Mata , Dima L. Shepelyansky

We study the interaction among dispersion, nonlinearity, and disorder effects in the context of wave transmission through a discrete periodic structure, subjected to continuous harmonic excitation in its stop band. We consider a damped…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-20 Behrooz Yousefzadeh , A. Srikantha Phani

We address the interplay between two fundamentally different wavepacket localization mechanisms, namely resonant dynamic localization due to collapse of quasi-energy bands in periodic media and disorder-induced Anderson localization.…

We study the spatio-temporal evolution of wave packets in one-dimensional quasiperiodic lattices which localize linear waves. Nonlinearity (related to two-body interactions) has destructive effect on localization, as recently observed for…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-02-26 Marco Larcher , Tetyana V. Laptyeva , Joshua D. Bodyfelt , Franco Dalfovo , Michele Modugno , Sergej Flach