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We study localization in a one-dimensional quasiperiodic lattice obtained by extending the Aubry-Andr\'e model with an additional $N$th-neighbor hopping term of strength $J_{N}$. This long-range tunneling couples successive windings of an…

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Quasiperiodic mosaic systems with the quasiperiodic potential being added periodically with a fixed lattice interval have attracted significant attention due to their peculiar spectral properties with exactly known mobility edges, which…

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We study antiferromagnetic two-leg spin-1/2 ladders with strong bond randomness, using the real space renormalization group method. We find the low-temperature spin susceptibility of the system follows non-universal power laws, and the…

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As an important class of systems with unique topological effects beyond the periodic lattices, quasiperiodic topological structures have attracted much attention in recent years. Due to the quasiperiodic modulation, the topological states…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Juan Song , Fengqing Yang , Zhiwei Guo , Youqi Chen , Haitao Jiang , Yunhui Li , Hong Chen

Quantum transport and localization are fundamental concepts in condensed matter physics. It is commonly believed that in one-dimensional systems, the existence of mobility edges is highly dependent on disorder. Recently, there has been a…

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…

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Topological edge states are known to emerge in certain quasicrystals. We investigate a topological quasicrystal in the presence of nonlinearity by generalizing the Toda lattice to include modulated periodic hoppings, where the period is…

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We recapitulate the principle enabling the phenomenon of dynamic localization, and provide model calculations for ultracold atoms in driven optical lattices which indicate that the localization effect remains almost unaffected by interband…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-19 Stephan Arlinghaus , Matthias Langemeyer , Martin Holthaus

Localization properties of non-interacting quantum particles in one-dimensional incommensurate lattices are investigated with an exponential short-range hopping that is beyond the minimal nearest-neighbor tight-binding model. Energy…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-13 J. Biddle , S. Das Sarma

We study numerically the linear optical response of a quasiparticle moving on a one-dimensional disordered lattice in the presence of a linear bias. The random site potential is assumed to be long-range-correlated with a power-law spectral…

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We study a lattice field model which qualitatively reflects the phenomenon of Anderson localization and delocalization for real symmetric band matrices. In this statistical mechanics model, the field takes values in a supermanifold based on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-10-28 Margherita Disertori , Tom Spencer , Martin R. Zirnbauer

The Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper model provides a paradigmatic example of aperiodic order in a one-dimensional lattice displaying a delocalization-localization phase transition at a finite critical value $V_c$ of the quasiperiodic potential…

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We investigate localization effects in zigzag graphene nanoribbons with quasiperiodic Fibonacci-type edge extensions, accounting for electron-electron interactions. We employ a tight-binding model that includes first- and…

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We introduce and explore a family of self-dual models of single-particle motion in quasiperiodic potentials, with hopping amplitudes that fall off as a power law with exponent $p$. These models are generalizations of the familiar…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-08-10 Sarang Gopalakrishnan

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

Disorder plays a crucial role in many systems particularly in solid state physics. However, the disorder in a particular system can usually not be chosen or controlled. We show that the unique control available for ultracold atomic gases…

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

We predict a re-entrant topological transition in a one dimensional non-Hermitian quasiperiodic lattice. By considering a non-Hermitian generalized Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper (AAH) model with quasiperiodic potential, we show that the system first…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-06-21 Ashirbad Padhan , Soumya Ranjan Padhi , Tapan Mishra

Moir\'e lattices are aperiodic systems formed by a superposition of two periodic lattices with a relative rotational angle. In optics, the photonic moir\'e lattice has many appealing properties such as its ability to localize light, thus…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-02 Zixuan Gao , Zhenli Xu , Zhiguo Yang , Fangwei Ye

We propose a solvable class of 1D quasiperiodic tight-binding models encompassing extended, localized, and critical phases, separated by nontrivial mobility edges. Limiting cases include the Aubry-Andr\'e model and the models of PRL 114,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-11-07 Miguel Gonçalves , Bruno Amorim , Eduardo V. Castro , Pedro Ribeiro

Previously, we have shown that the transition probability of the Landau-Zener problem in periodic lattice systems becomes large by taking into account the nonlinearity of the energy spectra, compared with the probability by the conventional…

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