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We investigate numerically the effect of the competition of disorder, nonlinearity, and boundaries on the Anderson localization of light waves in finite-size, one-dimensional waveguide arrays. Using the discrete Anderson - nonlinear…

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We investigate the long time behavior of a wavepacket initially localized at a single site $n_0$ in translationally invariant harmonic and anharmonic chains with random interactions. In the harmonic case, the energy profile $ \bar{<…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-11-10 S. Lepri , R. Schilling , S. Aubry

We study two coupled 3D lattices, one of them featuring uncorrelated on-site disorder and the other one being fully ordered, and analyze how the interlattice hopping affects the localization-delocalization transition of the former and how…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-04-20 Andre M. C. Souza , Guilherme M. A. Almeida , Eduardo R. Mucciolo

The impact of disorder on wave transport has been extensively studied in Hermitian systems, where static randomness gives rise to Anderson localization. In non-Hermitian lattices, static disorder can lead to peculiar transport features,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-01 I. Komis , E. T. Kokkinakis , K. G. Makris , E. N. Economou

We examine the onset of Anderson localization in three-dimensional systems with structural disorder in the form of lattice irregularities and in the absence of any on-site disordered potential. Analyzing two models with distinct types of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-05-29 Sourav Bhattacharjee , Piotr Sierant , Marek Dudyński , Jan Wehr , Jakub Zakrzewski , Maciej Lewenstein

Disorder and non-Hermitian effects together can upend how waves localize. In a 1D disordered chain, the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) can induce Anderson delocalization, defying the usual rule that disorder in low dimensions always…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-09-03 Wei-Wu Jin , Jin Liu , Xin Wang , Yu-Ran Zhang , Xueqin Huang , Xiaomin Wei , Wenbo Ju , Zhongmin Yang , Tao Liu , Franco Nori

Anderson localization is the ubiquitous phenomenon of inhibition of transport of classical and quantum waves in a disordered medium. In dimension one, it is well known that all states are localized, implying that the distribution of an…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-06-14 Clément Hainaut , Jean-François Clément , Pascal Szriftgiser , Jean Claude Garreau , Adam Rançon , Radu Chicireanu

We report results of numerical simulations of wave-packet dynamics in a class of chains consisting of two types of weakly coupled clusters arranged in a quasiperiodic sequence. Properties of eigenstates are investigated using perturbation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Z. Cerovski , M. Schreiber , U. Grimm

We study the spreading of initially localized states in a nonlinear disordered lattice described by the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with random on-site potentials - a nonlinear generalization of the Anderson model of localization. We…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-05-11 M. Mulansky , A. Pikovsky

We reveal the generic characteristics of wave packet delocalization in two-dimensional nonlinear disordered lattices by performing extensive numerical simulations in two basic disordered models: the Klein-Gordon system and the discrete…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-03-18 Bertin Many Manda , Bob Senyange , Charalampos Skokos

We study numerically the expansion dynamics of an initially confined quantum wave packet in the presence of a disordered potential and a uniform bias force. For white-noise disorder, we find that the wave packet develops asymmetric…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-01-24 C Crosnier de Bellaistre , C Trefzger , A. Aspect , A. Georges , L Sanchez-Palencia

In this paper, we report results for the wave packet dynamics in a class of quasiperiodic chains consisting of two types of weakly coupled clusters. The dynamics are studied by means of the return probability and the mean square…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-29 Stefanie Thiem , Michael Schreiber , Uwe Grimm

We investigate numerically and experimentally the influence of coupling disorder on the self-trapping dynamics in nonlinear one-dimensional optical waveguide arrays. The existence of a lower and upper bound of the effective average…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-05-15 U. Naether , M. Heinrich , Y. Lahini , S. Nolte , R. A. Vicencio , M. I. Molina , A. Szameit

We study the properties of mode-mode interactions for waves propagating in nonlinear disordered one-dimensional systems. We focus on i) the localization volume of a mode which defines the number of interacting partner modes, ii) the overlap…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-19 D. O. Krimer , S. Flach

We seek the possibility of a disorder driven transition in a tight-binding lattice with a flat band using complexity parameter approach. Our results indicate the existence of a localized to extended states transition with increasing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-14 Pragya Shukla

Anderson localization of wave-functions at zero energy in quasi-1D systems of $N$ disordered chains with inter-chain coupling $t$ is examined. Localization becomes weaker than for the 1D disordered chain ($t=0$) when $t$ is smaller than the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-10-09 Dietmar Weinmann , S. N. Evangelou

The dynamics of a disordered nonlinear chain can be either regular or chaotic with a certain probability. The chaotic behavior is often associated with the destruction of Anderson localization by the nonlinearity. In the presentwork it is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-05 D. M. Basko

We study, both experimentally and numerically, the Anderson localization phenomenon in torsional waves of a disordered elastic rod, which consists of a cylinder with randomly spaced notches. We find that the normal-mode wave amplitudes are…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. Flores , L. Gutiérrez , R. A. Méndez-Sánchez , G. Monsivais , P. Mora , A. Morales

For Anderson localization on the Cayley tree, we study the statistics of various observables as a function of the disorder strength $W$ and the number $N$ of generations. We first consider the Landauer transmission $T_N$. In the localized…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-01-22 Cecile Monthus , Thomas Garel

We demonstrate that wave amplification enables even weak nonlinearities to reshape linear wave-packet transport in nonreciprocal systems. We study the dynamics of bulk Gaussian wave packets in the Hatano--Nelson model with onsite cubic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-03 Bertin Many Manda , Vassos Achilleos