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We propose a disorder-free one-dimensional single-particle Hamiltonian hosting an exact mobility edge (ME), placing the system outside the assumptions of no-go theorems regarding unbounded potentials. By applying a linear Stark potential…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-01 Yunyao Qi , Heng Lin , Quanfeng Lu , Dong Ruan , Gui-Lu Long

We obtain approximate solutions defining the mobility edge separating localized and extended states for several classes of generic one-dimensional quasiperiodic models. We validate our analytical ansatz with exact numerical calculations.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-06-30 DinhDuy Vu , Sankar Das Sarma

We study the mobility edges in a variety of one-dimensional tight binding models with slowly varying quasi-periodic disorders. It is found that the quasi-periodic disordered models can be approximated by an ensemble of periodic models. The…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-07-19 Qiyun Tang , Yan He

The mobility edge (ME) is a critical energy delineates the boundary between extended and localized states within the energy spectrum, and it plays a crucial role in understanding the metal-insulator transition in disordered or quasiperiodic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-09-04 Xiang-Ping Jiang , Weilei Zeng , Yayun Hu , Peng Liu

Mobility edge (ME) has played an essential role in disordered models. However, while this concept has been well established in disordered single-particle models, its existence in disordered many-body models is still under controversy. Here,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-07-06 Xiaoshui Lin , Ming Gong , Guang-Can Guo

We study the one-dimensional tight-binding model with quasi-periodic disorders, where the quasi-period is tuned to be very large. It is found that this type of model with large quasi-periodic disorders can also support the mobility edges,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-02-22 Qiyun Tang , Yan He

We study a one-dimensional quasiperiodic system described by the Aubry-Andr\'e model in the small wave vector limit and demonstrate the existence of almost mobility edges and critical regions in the system. It is well known that the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-01-03 Yucheng Wang , Gao Xianlong , Shu Chen

We introduce a self-consistent theory of mobility edges in nearest-neighbour tight-binding chains with quasiperiodic potentials. Demarcating boundaries between localised and extended states in the space of system parameters and energy,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-02-10 Alexander Duthie , Sthitadhi Roy , David E. Logan

The mobility edge (ME) that marks the energy separating extended and localized states is a central concept in understanding the metal-insulator transition induced by disordered or quasiperiodic potentials. MEs have been extensively studied…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-04-25 Yucheng Wang , Long Zhang , Yuhao Wan , Yu He , Yongjian Wang

In one-dimensional quasiperiodic systems, only a few models with exact mobility edges (MEs) have been constructed using generalized self-duality theory, Avila's global theory, or the renormalization group method. This raises an intriguing…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-29 Hai-Tao Hu , Xiaoshui Lin , Ai-Min Guo , Guangcan Guo , Zijin Lin , Ming Gong

We propose a family of one-dimensional mosaic models inlaid with a slowly varying potential $V_n=\lambda\cos(\pi\alpha n^\nu)$, where $n$ is the lattice site index and $0<\nu<1$. Combinating the asymptotic heuristic argument with the theory…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-12-14 Longyan Gong

We study the single-particle properties of two-dimensional quasicrystals where the underlying geometry of the tight-binding lattice is crystalline but the on-site potential is quasicrystalline. We will focus on the 2D generalised…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-01-23 Callum W. Duncan

Unlike the well-known Mott's argument that extended and localized states should not coexist at the same energy in a generic random potential, we provide an example of a nearest-neighbor tight-binding disordered model which carries both…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-01-24 Adway Kumar Das , Anandamohan Ghosh , Ivan M. Khaymovich

A single-particle mobility edge (SPME) marks a critical energy separating extended from localized states in a quantum system. In one-dimensional systems with uncorrelated disorder, a SPME cannot exist, since all single-particle states…

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

We propose a minimal two-leg ladder model in which the mobility edge (ME) arises solely due to bond modulation, introduced through a slowly varying quasiperiodic modulation in the inter-leg tunnelling amplitudes. We demonstrate that this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-09 Arpita Goswami

The mobility edge, as a central concept in disordered models for localization-delocalization transitions, has rarely been discussed in the context of random matrix theory (RMT). Here we report a new class of random matrix model by direct…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-11-16 Xiaoshui Lin , Guang-Can Guo , Ming Gong

Quasiperiodic systems offer an appealing intermediate between long-range ordered and genuine disordered systems, with unusual critical properties. One-dimensional models that break the so-called self-dual symmetry usually display a mobility…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-04-26 Hepeng Yao , Alice Khoudli , Léa Bresque , Laurent Sanchez-Palencia

Symmetry-protected topological phases cannot be described by any local order parameter and are beyond the conventional symmetry-breaking paradigm for understanding quantum matter. They are characterized by topological boundary states robust…

We propose a general analytic method to study the localization transition in one-dimensional quasicrystals with parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry, described by complex quasiperiodic mosaic lattice models. By applying Avila's global…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-02-03 Yanxia Liu , Yucheng Wang , Xiong-Jun Liu , Qi Zhou , Shu Chen