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A new paradigm of Anderson localization caused by correlations in the long-range hopping along with uncorrelated on-site disorder is considered which requires a more precise formulation of the basic localization-delocalization principles. A…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-03-20 P. Nosov , I. M. Khaymovich , V. E. Kravtsov

We study theoretically Anderson localization of two-dimensional massless pseudospin-1 Dirac particles in a random one-dimensional scalar potential. We focus explicitly on the effect of disorder correlations, considering a short-range…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-09-11 Seulong Kim , Kihong Kim

Parameters of localization are defined in the lab and rotating frame for solutions of the Dirac equation in the field of a traveling circularly polarized electromagnetic wave and constant magnetic field. The radius of localization is of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 B. V. Gisin

We present the relativistic analogue of Anderson localization in one dimension. We use Dirac equation to calculate the transmission probability for a spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ particle incident upon a rectangular barrier. Using the transfer matrix…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-03-10 Abhay Mehta , Sandeep Joshi , Sudhir R. Jain

We investigate how a localized curvature affects the dynamics of massless Dirac fermions in a curved surface. We consider a smooth bump with axial symmetry, adopting two specific geometric models, namely a Gaussian and a volcano-like bumps.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 A. R. N. Lima , D. F. S. Veras , J. E. G. Silva

Localization of electronic wave functions in modern two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene can impact drastically their transport and magnetic properties. The recent localization landscape (LL) theory has brought many tools and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-10-04 Luis A. Razo-López , Geoffroy J. Aubry , Marcel Filoche , Fabrice Mortessagne

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

In this paper, we prove Anderson localization for a hierarchical Anderson-Bernoulli model on lattice with arbitrary dimension, where the potential is characterized by a geometric hierarchical structure combined with fluctuations induced by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Shihe Liu , Yunfeng Shi , Zhifei Zhang

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 is a phase transition between a metallic phase, where wavefunctions are extended and delocalized in space, and an insulating phase, where wavefunctions are completely localized. These transitions are driven by…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-30 Pasquale Marra

Anderson localization is a quantum phenomenon in which disorder localizes electronic wavefunctions. In this work, we propose a new approach to study Anderson localization based on the density matrix formalism. Drawing an analogy to the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-31 Ziyue Qi , Yi Zhang , Mingpu Qin , Hongming Weng , Kun Jiang

We study a particular class of families of multi-dimensional lattice Schr\"o\-dinger operators with deterministic (including quasi-periodic) potentials generated by the "hull" given by an orthogonal series over the Haar wavelet basis on the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-18 Victor Chulaevsky

We study the localization properties of non-interacting waves propagating in a speckle-like potential superposed on a one-dimensional lattice. Using a decimation/renormalization procedure, we estimate the localization length for a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-30 Serpil Sucu , Saban Aktas , S. Erol Okan , Zehra Akdeniz , Patrizia Vignolo

Localized solutions of the Dirac equation for an electron moving in free space and electromagnetic field lattices with periodic dependence on space-time coordinates (electromagnetic space-time crystals) are treated using the expansions in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 G. N. Borzdov

The transport of deformable self-propelling objects like bacteria, worms, snakes, and robots through heterogeneous environments is poorly understood. In this paper, we use experiment, simulation, and theory to study a snake-like robot as it…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Christopher J. Pierce , Tianyu Wang , Dmitri Kalinin , Andrew Zangwill , Daniel I. Goldman

We study Anderson localization in a discrete-time quantum map dynamics in one dimension with nearest-neighbor hopping strength $\theta$ and quasienergies located on the unit circle. We demonstrate that strong disorder in a local phase field…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-06-28 Ihor Vakulchyk , Sergej Flach

The one-dimensional propagation of waves in a bichromatic potential may be modeled by the Aubry-Andr\'e Hamiltonian. The latter presents a delocalization-localization transition, which has been observed in recent experiments using ultracold…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-04-02 Mathias Albert , Patricio Leboeuf

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

Disordered systems exhibiting exponential localization are mapped to anisotropic spin chains with localization length being related to the anisotropy of the spin model. This relates localization phenomenon in fermions to the rotational…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Indubala I. Satija

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