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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

The localization subregions of stationary waves in continuous disordered media have been recently demonstrated to be governed by a hidden landscape that is the solution of a Dirichlet problem expressed with the wave operator. In this…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-10-10 Marcelo Leite Lyra , Svitlana Mayboroda , Marcel Filoche

Anderson localization is related to exponential localization of a particle in the configuration space in the presence of a disorder potential. Anderson localization can be also observed in the momentum space and corresponds to quantum…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Krzysztof Giergiel , Krzysztof Sacha

Anderson localization is a fundamental phenomenon in disordered quantum systems, where transport is suppressed by wave interference from extensive randomness. Moving beyond traditional multi-impurity scenarios, we investigate…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-03 Niaz Ali Khan , Munsif Jan , Muzamil Shah , Muhammad Sajid , Muhammad Mateen , Mushtaq Ali

Random scattering of photons in disordered one-dimensional solids gives rise to an exponential suppression of transmission, which is known as Anderson localization. Here, we experimentally study Anderson localization in a superconducting…

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

We investigate finite two-dimensional disordered systems with periodic confinement. At low energies, eigenstates exhibit strong Anderson localization, while at higher energies a subset of states exhibits variational scarring with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Fartash Chalangari , Anant Vijay Varma , Joonas Keski-Rahkonen , Esa Räsänen

Localization due to disorder has been one of the most intriguing theoretical concepts evolved in condensed matter. Here, we expand the theory of localization by considering two types of disorder at the same time, namely the original…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-03-03 Mouyang Cheng , Haoxiang Chen , Ji Chen

Diffusive transport is among the most common phenomena in nature [1]. However, as predicted by Anderson [2], diffusion may break down due to interference. This transition from diffusive transport to localization of waves should occur for…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Martin Störzer , Peter Gross , Christof M. Aegerter , Georg Maret

Light scattering in random media is usually considered within the framework of the three-dimensional Anderson universality class, with modifications for the vector nature of electromagnetic waves. We propose that the linear dispersiveness…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-08-05 Tobias Micklitz , Alexander Altland

We theoretically study the Anderson localization of a matter wave packet in a one-dimensional disordered potential. We develop an analytical model which includes the initial phase-space density of the matter wave and the spectral broadening…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-03-08 Marie Piraud , Pierre Lugan , Philippe Bouyer , Alain Aspect , Laurent Sanchez-Palencia

We study spectral properties of partial differential operators modelling composite materials with highly contrasting constituents, comprised of soft spherical inclusions with random radii dispersed in a stiff matrix. Such operators have…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Matteo Capoferri , Matthias Täufer

Dynamical localization phenomena of monochromatically perturbed standard map (SM) and Anderson map (AM), which are both identified with a two-dimensional disordered system under suitable conditions, are investigated by the numerical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-01-24 Hiroaki S. Yamada , Fumihiro Matsui , Kensuke S. Ikeda

The effect of disorder on magnonic transport in low-dimensional magnetic materials is studied in the framework of a classical spin model. Numerical investigations give insight into scattering properties of the systems and show the existence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-24 Martin Evers , Cord A. Müller , Ulrich Nowak

The phenomenon of electronic wave localization through disorder was introduced by Anderson in 1958 in the context of electron transport in solids. It remains an important area of fundamental and applied research. Localization of all wave…

Physics Education · Physics 2016-10-12 K. J. Kemp , S. Barker , J. Guthrie , B. Hagood , M. D. Havey

The wave function of a non-relativistic particle in a periodic potential admits oscillatory solutions, the Bloch waves. In the presence of a random noise contribution to the potential the wave function is localized. We outline a new proof…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Robert Brandenberger , Walter Craig

A recent theoretical breakthrough has brought a new tool, called \emph{localization landscape}, to predict the localization regions of vibration modes in complex or disordered systems. Here, we report on the first experiment which measures…

Localization of electromagnetic waves in disordered potentials is prevented by polarization terms, so only light scattering systems of dimensions $d=1$ and $2$ with scalar properties exhibit light localization. We here show that this result…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-03 Carlos E. Máximo , Noel A. Moreira , Robin Kaiser , Romain Bachelard

Topic of the thesis is a theoretical description of the ultracold atomic gases in one- and two-dimensional optical lattices in the presence of the disorder leading to the Anderson localization. The disorder is created by interaction of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-07-19 Jan Major

Anderson localization (AL) is a ubiquitous interference phenomenon in which waves fail to propagate in a disordered medium. We observe three-dimensional AL of noninteracting ultracold matter by allowing a spin-polarized atomic Fermi gas to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-10-12 S. S. Kondov , W. R. McGehee , J. J. Zirbel , B. DeMarco