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The Kronig-Penney model is used to Study the effect of nonlinear interaction on the transmissive properties of both ordered and disordered chains. In the ordered case, the nonlinearity can either localize or delocalize the electronic states…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-09-25 K. Senouci , N. Zekri , H. Bahlouli , A. K. Sen

Changes in the wavefunction's phase during propagation in a random Hermitian lattice, a process known as dephasing, results in diffusion rather than Anderson localization. However, when non-Hermiticity is introduced, the wave behavior…

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The intensity distribution of electromagnetic polar waves in a chain of near-resonant weakly-coupled scatterers is investigated theoretically and supported by a numerical analysis. Critical scaling behavior is discovered for part of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Sanli Faez , Ad Lagendijk , Alexander Ossipov

We study the selftrapping properties of an initially localized excitation in several flat band lattices, in the presence of nonlinear (Kerr) disorder. In the weak nonlinearity regime, the dynamics is controlled by the degeneracy of the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-10-12 Danilo Rivas , Mario I. Molina

The Anderson delocalization-localization transition is studied in multilayered systems with randomly placed interlayer bonds of density $p$ and strength $t$. In the absence of diagonal disorder (W=0), following an appropriate perturbation…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 S. N. Evangelou , Shi-Jie Xiong , P. Markov , D. E. Katsanos

The impact of local reflection symmetry on wave localization and transport within finite disordered chains is investigated. Local symmetries thereby play the role of a spatial correlation of variable range in the finite system. We find…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-08-21 C. V. Morfonios , M. Röntgen , F. K. Diakonos , P. Schmelcher

The localization behavior of the Anderson model with anisotropic hopping integral t for weakly coupled planes and weakly coupled chains is investigated both numerically with the transfer matrix method and analytically within the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Qiming Li , C. M. Soukoulis , I. Zambetaki , E. N. Economou

In the absence of confinement localization of waves takes place due to randomness or nonlinearity and relies on their phase coherence. We quantitatively probe the sensitivity of localized wave packets to random phase fluctuations and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-12 K. Rayanov , G. Radons , S. Flach

We study energy propagation in locally time-periodically driven disordered nonlinear chains. For frequencies inside the band of linear Anderson modes, three different regimes are observed with increasing driver amplitude: 1) Below…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-05-12 Magnus Johansson , Georgios Kopidakis , Stefano Lepri , Serge Aubry

We study Anderson localization of the classical lattice waves in a chain with mass impurities distributed randomly through a power-law relation $s^{-(1+\alpha)}$ with $ s $ as the distance between two successive impurities and $\alpha>0$.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-10 Sepideh S. Zakeri , Stefano Lepri , Diederik S. Wiersma

We observe a crossover from strong to weak chaos in the spatiotemporal evolution of multiple site excitations within disordered chains with cubic nonlinearity. Recent studies have shown that Anderson localization is destroyed, and the wave…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-10-06 T. V. Laptyeva , J. D. Bodyfelt , D. O. Krimer , Ch. Skokos , S. Flach

We study the dynamics of one electron wave packet in a chain with a non-adiabatic electron-phonon interaction. The electron-phonon coupling is taken into account in the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation by a delayed cubic nonlinearity.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 F. A. B. F. de Moura , Iram Gleria , I. F. dos Santos , M. L. Lyra

We study Anderson localization in a one-dimensional disordered system with long-range correlated hopping decaying as $1/r^{a}$ with complex hopping amplitudes that break time-reversal symmetry in a tunable fashion by varying their argument.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-03 Bikram Pain , Sthitadhi Roy , Jens H. Bardarson , Ivan M. Khaymovich

We consider a noninteracting disordered system designed to model particle diffusion, relaxation in glasses, and impurity bands of semiconductors. Disorder originates in the random spatial distribution of sites. We find strong numerical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-17 Jacob J. Krich , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

We review recent progress in the dynamics of nonlinear lattice waves in heterogeneous media, which enforce complete wave localization in the linear wave equation limit, especially Anderson localization for random potentials, and Aubry-Andre…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-22 T. V. Laptyeva , M. V. Ivanchenko , S. Flach

Quantum particles in a disordered potential, photons or classical waves in a random medium, or the universe expansion in a fluctuating cosmic field, all share Anderson localization as a communality. In general, localization is enhanced for…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-09-07 Hichem Eleuch , Michael Hilke

Disorder can localize the eigenstates of one-dimensional non-Hermitian systems, leading to an Anderson transition with a critical exponent of 1. We show that, due to the lack of energy conservation, the dynamics of individual, real-space…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-08 Helene Spring , Viktor Könye , Fabian A. Gerritsma , Ion Cosma Fulga , Anton R. Akhmerov

We study the localization properties of non-interacting waves propagating in a speckle-like potential superposed on a one-dimensional lattice. Using a decimation/renormalization procedure, we estimate the localization length for a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-30 Serpil Sucu , Saban Aktas , S. Erol Okan , Zehra Akdeniz , Patrizia Vignolo

Anderson localization is a consequence of coherent interference of multiple scattering events in the presence of disorder, which leads to an exponential suppression of the transmission. The decay of the transmission is typically probed at a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Hichem Eleuch , Michael Hilke , Richard MacKenzie

Dynamics of a particle in a perfect chain with one nonlinear impurity and in a perfect nonlinear chain under the action of dc field is studied numerically. The nonlinearity appears due to the coupling of the electronic motion to optical…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 P. K. Datta , A. M. Jayannavar