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The front dynamics in the Harper (or Aubry-Andr\'e) model (which has a localization transition) is investigated using two different settings, particle number front where the system is at zero temperature, and initially, the particle numbers…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-06 Gergo Roosz

Strong disorder drives conventional Hermitian systems into Anderson insulating states, suppressing all topological phases. Here, we unveil symmetry-protected, anomalous topological phases in the strong disorder limit of a non-Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Mina Ren , Xi Shi , Haitao Jiang , Feng Liu , Hong Chen , Yong Sun

We study one-dimensional disordered fermions that either undergo metal-insulator transitions or topological phase transitions to become trivial Anderson insulators. We focus on using entanglement to elucidate how the spatial, momentum, and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-10-01 Ian Mondragon-Shem , Taylor L. Hughes

We study a non-Hermitian non-Abelian topological insulator preserving $PT$ symmetry, where the non-Hermitian term represents nonreciprocal hoppings. As it increases, a spontaneous $PT$ symmetry breaking transition occurs in the perfect-flat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Motohiko Ezawa

We show, in a completely analytical way, that a tight binding ladder network composed of atomic sites with on-site potentials distributed according to the quasiperiodic Aubry model can exhibit a metal-insulator transition at multiple values…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-19 Shreekantha Sil , Santanu K. Maiti , Arunava Chakrabarti

Observing critical phases in lattice models is challenging due to the need to analyze the finite time or size scaling of observables. We study how the computational topology technique of persistent homology can be used to characterize…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-09-05 Yu He , Shiqi Xia , Dimitris G. Angelakis , Daohong Song , Zhigang Chen , Daniel Leykam

Anderson localization and the non-Hermitian skin effect are two distinct confinement phenomena of the eigenfunctions that are driven, respectively, by disorder and nonreciprocity. Understanding their interplay within a unified framework…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-06-27 Dipendu Halder , Saurabh Basu

The interplay among topology, disorder, and non-Hermiticity can induce some exotic topological and localization phenomena. Here we investigate this interplay in a two-dimensional non-Hermitian disordered Chern-insulator model with two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Ling-Zhi Tang , Ling-Feng Zhang , Guo-Qing Zhang , Dan-Wei Zhang

We explore the critical properties of the localization transition in the non-Hermitian Aubry-Andre-Stark (AAS) model with quasiperiodic and Stark potentials, where the non-Hermiticity comes from the nonreciprocal hopping. The localization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Ji-Long Dong , En-Wen Liang , Shi-Yang Liu , Guo-Qing Zhang , Ling-Zhi Tang , Dan-Wei Zhang

Understanding the interplay of non-Hermiticity and topology is crucial given the intrinsic openness of most natural and engineered systems and it has important ramifications in topological lasers and sensors. Intense efforts have been…

We review recent progress in our theoretical understanding of strongly correlated fermion systems in the presence of disorder. Results were obtained by the application of a powerful nonperturbative approach, the Dynamical Mean-Field Theory…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-18 K. Byczuk , W. Hofstetter , D. Vollhardt

We study the metal-to-insulator transition of the Hubbard model at zero temperatures in infinite dimensions. The coexistence of metallic and insulating solutions for a finite range of the interaction is established. It is shown that the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Marcelo J. Rozenberg , Goetz Moeller , Gabriel Kotliar

The phenomenon of Anderson localization wherein non-interacting electrons are localized by quenched impurities is a subject matter that has been extremely well studied. However, localization transition under the combined influence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-24 Shashikant Singh Kunwar , Prabuddha B. Chakraborty , R. Narayanan

In this paper, we investigate a non-Hermitian Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper model characterized by power-law hoppings ($1/s^{a}$) and a quasi-periodic parameter $\beta$, where $a$ denotes the power-law index, $s$ represents the hopping distance, and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-03-13 Dechi Peng , Shujie Cheng , Gao Xianlong

Although quantum phase transitions involved with Anderson localization had been investigated for more than a half century, the role of spin polarization in these metal-insulator transitions has not been clearly addressed as a function of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-08-25 Kyung-Yong Park , Hyun-Jung Lee , Ki-Seok Kim

We investigate the entanglement dynamics of the non-Hermitian Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper (AAH) chain. The results reveal that by increasing quasiperiodic strength, a phase transition occurs from the area law induced by non-Hermitian skin effect…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-01-18 Shan-Zhong Li , Xue-Jia Yu , Zhi Li

We study the three-dimensional Anderson model of localization with anisotropic hopping, i.e., weakly coupled chains and weakly coupled planes. In our extensive numerical study we identify and characterize the metal-insulator transition by…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Milde , R. A. Roemer , M. Schreiber

We study the influence of many-particle interactions on a metal-insulator transition. We consider the two-interacting-particle problem for onsite interacting particles on a one-dimensional quasiperiodic chain, the so-called Aubry-Andr\'{e}…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrzej Eilmes , Rudolf A. Roemer , Michael Schreiber

We study the influence of scale-free correlated disorder on the metal-insulator transition in the Anderson model of localization. We use standard transfer matrix calculations and perform finite-size scaling of the largest inverse Lyapunov…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-06-05 Alexander Croy , Philipp Cain , Michael Schreiber

The possibility of driving an Anderson metal-insulator transition in the presence of scale-free disorder by changing the correlation exponent is numerically investigated. We calculate the localization length for quasi-one-dimensional…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-06-05 Alexander Croy , Michael Schreiber