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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

We investigate, both experimentally and theoretically, possible routes towards Anderson-like localization of Bose-Einstein condensates in disordered potentials. The dependence of this quantum interference effect on the nonlinear…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Schulte , S. Drenkelforth , J. Kruse , W. Ertmer , J. Arlt , K. Sacha , J. Zakrzewski , M. Lewenstein

We consider a system of two discrete quasiperiodic 1D particles as an operator on $\ell^2(\mathbb Z^2)$ and establish Anderson localization at large disorder, assuming the potential has no cosine-type symmetries. In the presence of…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Jean Bourgain , Ilya Kachkovskiy

We investigate localization transition in an open quasiperiodic ladder where the quasiperiodicity is described by the Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper model. While previous studies have shown that higher-order hopping or constrained quasiperiodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Suparna Sarkar , Soumya Satpathi , Swapan K. Pati

We show that the tails of the asymptotic density distribution of a quantum wave packet that localizes in the the presence of random or quasiperiodic disorder can be described by the diagonal term of the projection over the eingenstates of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-01-28 Marco Moratti , Michele Modugno

In a disordered environment, the probability of transmission of a wave reduces with increasing disorder, the ultimate limit of which is the near-zero transmission due to Anderson localization. Under localizing conditions, transport is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-06-14 Himadri Sahoo , R Vijay , Sushil Mujumdar

Scale-free localization emerging in non-Hermitian physics has recently garnered significant attention. In this work, we explore the interplay between scale-free localization and Anderson localization by investigating a unidirectional…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-04-17 Yu Zhang , Luhong Su , Shu Chen

Anderson (localization) transition is a universal wave phenomenon characterized by a disorder-induced quantum phase transition from extended to localized states, whereas the non-Hermitian skin effect is a generic feature of non-Hermitian…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-31 C. Wang , X. R. Wang , Hechen Ren

Anderson localization (AL) and the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) represent two paradigmatic localization phenomena driven, respectively, by disorder and non-Hermiticity. In one-dimensional (1D) non-Hermitian systems, these factors are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Moirangthem Sanahal , Subhasis Panda , Snehasish Nandy

These lectures present some basic ideas and techniques in the spectral analysis of lattice Schrodinger operators with disordered potentials. In contrast to the classical Anderson tight binding model, the randomness is also allowed to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-30 Wilhelm Schlag

Systems with quasiperiodic disorder are known to exhibit localization transition in low dimension. After a critical strength of disorder all the states of the system become localized, thereby ceasing the particle motion in the system.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-03-17 Shilpi Roy , Tapan Mishra , B. Tanatar , Saurabh Basu

Boundary conditions can have dramatic impact in non-Hermitian systems, as exemplified by the non-Hermitian skin effect. Focusing on one-dimensional non-Hermitian quasiperioidic lattices, we show that the interplay of quasiperiodicity and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Wenzhi Wang , Tianyu Li , Wei Yi

Anderson localization (AL) phenomena usually exists in systems with random potential. However, disorder-free quantum many-body systems with local conservation can also exhibit AL or even many-body localization transition. In this work, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-20 Wei-Wei Yang , Lan Zhang , Xue-Ming Guo , Yin Zhong

Gauge potential is an emergent concept in systems of ultracold atomic gases. Derived from quantum waves immersed in an \emph{Abelian} gauge, the quasiperiodic Aubry-Andre-Harper (AAH) model is a simple yet powerful Hamiltonian to study the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-14 En Guo Guan , Hang Yu , Gang Wang

In lattices with uncorrelated on-site potential disorder, Anderson localization near the band edges can exhibit anomalously weak localization in the form of Lifshitz tail states. These states correspond to clusters of contiguous sites with…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-25 Stefano Longhi

A new type of delocalization induced by coherent harmonic perturbations in one-dimensional Anderson-localized disordered systems is investigated. With only a few $M$ frequencies a normal diffusion is realized, but the transition to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-04-14 Hiroaki S. Yamada , Kensuke S. Ikeda

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

Phase transitions in one-dimensional lattice systems are well established and have been extensively studied within both Hermitian and non-Hermitian frameworks. In this work, we extend this understanding to a more general setting by…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-11-25 S Rahul , A Harshitha

Anderson localization predicts that wave spreading in disordered lattices can come to a complete halt, providing a universal mechanism for {dynamical localization}. In the one-dimensional Hermitian Anderson model with uncorrelated diagonal…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-04-18 Stefano Longhi

Exponential localization of wavefunctions in lattices, whether in real or synthetic dimensions, is a fundamental wave interference phenomenon. Localization of Bloch-type functions in space-periodic lattice, triggered by spatial disorder, is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-01-22 Adhip Pattanayak , Á. Jiménez-Galán , Misha Ivanov , Gopal Dixit