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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 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

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

Do nonlinear waves destroy Anderson localization? Computational and experimental studies yield subdiffusive nonequilibrium wave packet spreading. Chaotic dynamics and phase decoherence assumptions are used for explaining the data. We…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-08-29 Charalampos Skokos , Ioannis Gkolias , Sergej Flach

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

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 show that, in contrast to immediate intuition, Anderson localization of noninteracting particles induced by a disordered potential in free space can increase (i.e., the localization length can decrease) when the particle energy…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-06-19 Marie Piraud , Alain Aspect , Laurent Sanchez-Palencia

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

We establish large sets of Anderson localized states for the quasi-periodic nonlinear wave equation on $\mathbb Z^d$, thus extending nonlinear Anderson localization from the random \cite{BW08} to a deterministic setting.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Yunfeng Shi , W. -M. Wang

We investigate numerically the propagation and the Anderson localization of plane waves in a one-dimensional lattice chain, where disorder and saturable nonlinearity are simultaneously present. Using a calculation scheme for solving the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-08-08 Ba Phi Nguyen , Kihong Kim

Anderson localization marks a halt of diffusive wave propagation in disordered systems. Despite extensive studies over the past 40 years, Anderson localization of light in three dimensions has remained elusive, leading to the question of…

Diffusion has been widely used to describe a random walk of particles or waves, and it requires only one parameter -- the diffusion constant. For waves, however, diffusion is an approximation that disregards the possibility of interference.…

Optics · Physics 2014-01-23 Alexey G. Yamilov , Raktim Sarma , Brandon Redding , Ben Payne , Heeso Noh , Hui Cao

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 discuss a model of random segmented wire, with linear segments of 2D wires joined by circular bends. The joining vertices act as scatterers on the propagating electron waves. The model leads to resonant Anderson localization when all…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-09 Cristian Estarellas , Llorenç Serra

We propose a conceptually new framework to study the onset of Anderson localization in disordered systems. The idea is to expose waves propagating in a random scattering environment to a sequence of short dephasing pulses. The system…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-22 T. Micklitz , C. A. Müller , A. Altland

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

We investigate disorder induced localization in the presence of nonlinearity and curvature. We numerically analyze the time-resolved three-dimensional expansion of a wave-packet in a bended cigar shaped potential with a focusing Kerr-like…

Optics · Physics 2014-02-25 Claudio Conti

Anderson localization does not lead to an exponential decay of intensity of an incident wave with the depth inside a strongly disordered three-dimensional medium. Instead, the average intensity is roughly constant in the first half of a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-12-10 S. E. Skipetrov , I. M. Sokolov

We rigorously analyse the correspondence between the one-dimensional standard Anderson model and a related classical system, the `kicked oscillator' with noisy frequency. We show that the Anderson localization corresponds to a parametric…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Tessieri , F. M. Izrailev

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