English
Related papers

Related papers: Super-Universality in Anderson Localization

200 papers

We report a numerical investigation of the Anderson transition in two-dimensional systems with spin-orbit coupling. An accurate estimate of the critical exponent $\nu$ for the divergence of the localization length in this universality class…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Yoichi Asada , Keith Slevin , Tomi Ohtsuki

Anderson localization marks a halt of diffusive wave propagation in disordered systems. Despite extensive studies over the past 40 years, Anderson localization of light in three dimensions has remained elusive, leading to the question of…

The Anderson model in one dimension is a quantum particle on a discrete chain of sites with nearest-neighbor hopping and random on-site potentials. It is a progenitor of many further models of disordered systems, and it has spurred numerous…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-11-27 Oleg Evnin

Anderson localization is fundamentally controlled by dimensionality, yet the nature of the Anderson transition in continuously tunable noninteger dimensions remains largely unexplored. Here, we introduce a family of three-dimensional…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-19 Tianyu Li , Xin Tang , Sheng Liu , Haiping Hu

We report an analysis of the Anderson transition in an SU(2) model with chiral symmetry. Clear single parameter scaling behaviour is observed. We estimate the critical exponent for the divergence of the localization length to be…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-24 Yoichi Asada , Keith Slevin , Tomi Ohtsuki

We develop a systematic typical medium dynamical cluster approximation that provides a proper description of the Anderson localization transition in three dimensions (3D). Our method successfully captures the localization phenomenon both in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-02-19 C. E. Ekuma , H. Terletska , K. -M. Tam , Z. -Y. Meng , J. Moreno , M. Jarrell

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 Anderson transition for light in three dimensions by performing large-scale ab-initio simulations of electromagnetic wave transport in disordered ensembles of conducting spheres. A mobility edge that separates diffusive transport…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-04 Alexey Yamilov , Hui Cao , Sergey E. Skipetrov

Taking into account that a proper description of disordered systems should focus on distribution functions, the authors develop a powerful numerical scheme for the determination of the probability distribution of the local density of states…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-06-20 Gerald Schubert , Alexander Weisse , Gerhard Wellein , Holger Fehske

Dimension 2 is expected to be the lower critical dimension for Anderson localization in a time reversal-invariant disordered quantum system. Using an atomic quasiperiodic kicked rotor -- equivalent to a two-dimensional Anderson-like model…

We study Anderson localization of ultracold atoms in weak, one-dimensional speckle potentials, using perturbation theory beyond Born approximation. We show the existence of a series of sharp crossovers (effective mobility edges) between…

We study Anderson localization in quasi--one--dimensional disordered wires within the framework of the replica $\sigma$--model. Applying a semiclassical approach (geodesic action plus Gaussian fluctuations) recently introduced within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexander Altland , Alex Kamenev , Chushun Tian

Anderson localization of particles -- the complete halt of wave transport through multiple scattering and phase coherence -- is a paradigmatic manifestation of quantum interference in disordered media. In three dimensions, the scaling…

The identification of universal properties from minimally processed data sets is one goal of machine learning techniques applied to statistical physics. Here, we study how the minimum number of variables needed to accurately describe the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-03 T. Mendes-Santos , X. Turkeshi , M. Dalmonte , Alex Rodriguez

Disordered non-interacting systems are classified into ten symmetry classes, with the unitary class being the most fundamental. The three and four dimensional unitary universality classes are attracting renewed interest because of their…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-09-27 Keith Slevin , Tomi Ohtsuki

Anderson localisation -- the inhibition of wave propagation in disordered media -- is a surprising interference phenomenon which is particularly intriguing in two-dimensional (2D) systems. While an ideal, non-interacting 2D system of…

Results of large-scale numerical simulations are reported on the Anderson localization in a two-dimensional square lattice tight-binding model with random flux. Localization lengths, fluctuations of the conductance, and the density of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-23 A. Furusaki

We report a careful finite size scaling study of the metal insulator transition in Anderson's model of localisation. We focus on the estimation of the critical exponent $\nu$ that describes the divergence of the localisation length. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-21 Keith Slevin , Tomi Ohtsuki

As part of condensed-matter physics, the field of Anderson localization concerns the study of conductance of electrons in a random medium. We summarize and explain the results obtained in "A new numerical approach to Anderson…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-07-17 Constanze Liaw

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