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We study transport of interacting particles in weakly disordered media. Our one-dimensional system includes (i) disorder: the hopping rate governing the movement of a particle between two neighboring lattice sites is inhomogeneous, and (ii)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-05-13 E. Ben-Naim , P. L. Krapivsky

The diffusion of electronic wave packets in one-dimensional systems with on-site, binary disorder is numerically investigated within the framework of a single-band tight-binding model. Fractal properties are incorporated by assuming that…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-07-07 P. R. Wells , J. d'Albuquerque e Castro , S. L. A. de Queiroz

We study the finite-time dynamics of an initially localized wave-packet in the Anderson model on the random regular graph (RRG). Considering the full probability distribution $\Pi(x,t)$ of a particle to be at some distance $x$ from the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-03-11 Giuseppe De Tomasi , Soumya Bera , Antonello Scardicchio , Ivan M. Khaymovich

We investigate the dynamical properties of a strongly disordered micropolar lattice made up of cubic block units. This phononic lattice model supports both transverse and rotational degrees of freedom hence its disordered variant posses an…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-08-12 A. Ngapasare , G. Theocharis , O. Richoux , Ch. Skokos , V. Achilleos

We investigate energy propagation in a one-dimensional stub lattice in the presence of both disorder and nonlinearity. In the periodic case, the stub lattice hosts two dispersive bands separated by a flat band; however, we show that…

The nonlinear Schroedinger equation in the presence of disorder is considered. The dynamics of an initially localized wave packet is studied. A subdiffusive spreading of the wave packet is explained in the framework of a continuous time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Alexander Iomin

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 consider a model of electrons in a finite topological insulator. We numerically study the propagation of electronic wave-packets localized near edges of the structure in the presence of defects and random disorder. We compare the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Jonathan Michala , Alexander Pierson , Terry A. Loring , Alexander B. Watson

Diffusion of electrons in two-dimensional disordered systems with spin-orbit interactions is investigated numerically. Asymptotic behaviors of the second moment of the wave packet and of the temporal auto-correlation function are examined.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Tohru Kawarabayashi , Tomi Ohtsuki

This study investigates transient wave dynamics in Turing pattern formation, focusing on waves emerging from localised disturbances. While the traditional focus of diffusion-driven instability has primarily centred on stationary solutions,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-03-15 Václav Klika , Eamonn A. Gaffney , Philip K. Maini

We present a perturbative approach to disordered systems in one spatial dimension that accesses the full range of phase disorder and clarifies the connection between localization and phase information. We consider a long chain of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-03-04 Adrian B. Culver , Pratik Sathe , Rahul Roy

We consider a model system in which anomalous diffusion is generated by superposition of underlying linear modes with a broad range of relaxation times. In the language of Gaussian polymers, our model corresponds to Rouse (Fourier) modes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-11 Assaf Amitai , Yacov Kantor , Mehran Kardar

We develop a numerical method for the time evolution of Gaussian wave packets on flat-band lattices in the presence of correlated disorder. To achieve this, we introduce a method to generate random on-site energies with prescribed…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-07-23 Qi Li , Junfeng Liu , Ke Liu , Zi-Xiang Hu , Zhou Li

We report a detailed and systematic numerical study of wave propagation through a coherently amplifying random one-dimensional medium. The coherent amplification is modeled by introducing a uniform imaginary part in the site energies of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-30 Sandeep K. Joshi , A. M. Jayannavar

The propagation of a narrow-band signal radiated by a point source in a randomly layered absorbing medium is studied asymptotically in the weak-scattering limit. It is shown that in a disordered stratified medium that is homogeneous on…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 V. D. Freilikher , Yu. V. Tarasov

A wave packet undergoes a strong spatial and temporal dispersion while propagating through a complex medium. This wave scattering is often seen as a nightmare in wave physics whether it be for focusing, imaging or communication purposes.…

We investigate the dynamics of a quantum particle in disordered tight-binding models in one and two dimensions which are exceptions to the common wisdom on Anderson localization, in the sense that the localization length diverges at some…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-17 P. L. Krapivsky , J. M. Luck

We investigate the propagation and scattering of highly nonlinear waves in disordered granular chains composed of diatomic (two-mass) units of spheres that interact via Hertzian contact. Using ideas from statistical mechanics, we consider…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 Laurent Ponson , Nicholas Boechler , Yi Ming Lai , Mason A. Porter , P. G. Kevrekidis , Chiara Daraio

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

Localization of waves by disorder is a fundamental physical problem encompassing a diverse spectrum of theoretical, experimental and numerical studies in the context of metal-insulator transition, quantum Hall effect, light propagation in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-06 Sergej Flach