English
Related papers

Related papers: Soft-mode and Anderson-like localization in two-ph…

200 papers

We predict Anderson localization of light with nested screw topological dislocations propagating in disordered two-dimensional arrays of hollow waveguides illuminated by vortex beams. The phenomenon manifests itself in the statistical…

We demonstrate experimentally that structural perturbations imposed on highly-dispersive photonic crystal-based waveguides give rise to spectral features that bear signatures of Anderson localization. Sharp resonances with the effective Qs…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Juraj Topolancik , Rob Ilic , Frank Vollmer

Wave transport in complex media is determined by the nature of quasimodes at the microscopic level. In three dimensional disordered media, waves generally undergo a phase transition from diffusion to Anderson localization, characterized by…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-10-24 Marcus Prado , Romain Bachelard , Robin Kaiser , Felipe A. Pinheiro

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 study the spatial structure of wave functions with exceptionally high local amplitudes in the Anderson model of localisation. By means of exact diagonalisations of finite systems, we obtain and analyse images of these wave functions: we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Uski , B. Mehlig , M. Schreiber

We study the effect of disorder in a holographic superconductor by introducing a quasi-periodic chemical potential. When the condensation of the superconductor is sufficiently small compared with the strength of disorder, we find that there…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-05 Hua Bi Zeng

We study spectral properties of partial differential operators modelling composite materials with highly contrasting constituents, comprised of soft spherical inclusions with random radii dispersed in a stiff matrix. Such operators have…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Matteo Capoferri , Matthias Täufer

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 consider the change in electron localization due to the presence of electron-electron repulsion in the \HA model. Taking into account local Mott-Hubbard physics and static screening of the disorder potential, the system is mapped onto an…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-12-28 Peter Henseler , Johann Kroha , Boris Shapiro

Random scattering of photons in disordered one-dimensional solids gives rise to an exponential suppression of transmission, which is known as Anderson localization. Here, we experimentally study Anderson localization in a superconducting…

Localized waves in disordered one-dimensional materials have been studied for decades, including white-noise and correlated disorder, as well as quasi-periodic disorder. How these wave phenomena relate to those in crystalline (periodic…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-20 X. Lei , D. P. Varn , J. P. Crutchfield

Anderson localization is a famous wave phenomenon that describes the absence of diffusion of waves in a disordered medium. Here we generalize the landscape theory of Anderson localization to general elliptic operators and complex boundary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Chen Jia , Ziqi Liu , Zhimin Zhang

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 analyze low-frequency vibrational modes in a two-dimensional, zero-temperature, quasistatically sheared model glass to identify a population of structural "soft spots" where particle rearrangements are initiated. The population of spots…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 M. Lisa Manning , Andrea J. Liu

We report on phenomenon of Anderson-type localization of walking solitons in optical lattices with random frequency modulation, manifested as dramatic enhancement of soliton trapping probability on lattice inhomogeneities with growth of the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yaroslav V. Kartashov Victor A. Vysloukh

We generalize the typical medium dynamical cluster approximation to multiband disordered systems. Using our extended formalism, we perform a systematic study of the non-local correlation effects induced by disorder on the density of states…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-11-11 Yi Zhang , Hanna Terletska , C. Moore , Chinedu Ekuma , Ka-Ming Tam , Tom Berlijn , Wei Ku , Juana Moreno , Mark Jarrell

A unified theory for the conductance of a long multimode quantum wire whose finite segment has randomly rough boundaries is developed. It enables one to take account of all mechanisms of wave scattering, both related to boundary roughness…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-04-02 Yu. V. Tarasov , L. D. Shostenko

We study the propagation and localization of classical waves in one-dimensional disordered structures composed of alternating layers of left- and right-handed materials (mixed stacks) and compare them to the structures composed of different…

We investigate experimentally the light evolution inside a two-dimensional finite periodic array of weakly- coupled optical waveguides with a disordered boundary. For a completely localized initial condition away from the surface, we find…

We report Anderson localization in two-dimensional optical waveguide arrays with disorder in waveguide separation introduced along one axis of the array, in an uncorrelated fashion for each waveguide row. We show that the anisotropic nature…