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Contrary to the theoretical predictions that all waves in two-dimensional disordered materials are localized, Anderson localization is observed only for sufficiently high frequencies in an isotropically jammed two-dimensional disordered…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-10 Ling Zhang , Yinqiao Wang , Jie Zheng , Aile Sun , Xulai Sun , Yujie Wang , Walter Schirmacher , Jie Zhang

We study the phenomenon of the "walking droplet", by means of numerical fluid dynamics simulations using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics numerical method. This phenomenon occurs when a millimetric drop is released on the surface of an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-17 Diego Molteni , Enrico Vitanza , Onofrio Rosario Battaglia

We carefully revisit the electron-boson scattering problem, going beyond popular semi-classical treatments. By providing numerically exact results valid at finite temperatures, we demonstrate the existence of a regime of electron-boson…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-26 H. Rammal , A. Ralko , S. Ciuchi , S. Fratini

Exponential localization of wavefunctions in lattices, whether in real or synthetic dimensions, is a fundamental wave interference phenomenon. Localization of Bloch-type functions in space-periodic lattice, triggered by spatial disorder, is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-01-22 Adhip Pattanayak , Á. Jiménez-Galán , Misha Ivanov , Gopal Dixit

The single-parameter scaling hypothesis predicts the absence of delocalized states for noninteracting quasiparticles in low-dimensional disordered systems. We show analytically and numerically that extended states may occur in the one- and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Rodriguez , V. A. Malyshev , G. Sierra , M. A. Martin-Delgado , J. Rodriguez-Laguna , F. Dominguez-Adame

We consider a noninteracting disordered system designed to model particle diffusion, relaxation in glasses, and impurity bands of semiconductors. Disorder originates in the random spatial distribution of sites. We find strong numerical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-17 Jacob J. Krich , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Thermalizing and localized many-body quantum systems present two distinct dynamical phases of matter. Recently, the fate of a localized system coupled to a thermalizing system viewed as a quantum bath received significant theoretical and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-07-13 Pietro Brighi , Alexios A. Michailidis , Kristina Kirova , Dmitry A. Abanin , Maksym Serbyn

The presence of disorder can severely impede wave transport, resulting in the famous Anderson localization. Previous theoretical studies found that Anderson transition can exist in one-dimensional (1D) non-Hermitian disordered rings with…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-02-13 Wei Wang , Xulong Wang , Guancong Ma

The wave function of a non-relativistic particle in a periodic potential admits oscillatory solutions, the Bloch waves. In the presence of a random noise contribution to the potential the wave function is localized. We outline a new proof…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Robert Brandenberger , Walter Craig

We investigate a celebrated problem of one dimensional tight binding model in the presence of disorder leading to Anderson localization from a novel perspective. A binary disorder is assumed to be created by immobile heavy particles for the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-08-11 Arkadiusz Kosior , Jan Major , Marcin Płodzień , Jakub Zakrzewski

We examine the onset of Anderson localization in three-dimensional systems with structural disorder in the form of lattice irregularities and in the absence of any on-site disordered potential. Analyzing two models with distinct types of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-05-29 Sourav Bhattacharjee , Piotr Sierant , Marek Dudyński , Jan Wehr , Jakub Zakrzewski , Maciej Lewenstein

The concept of random walk, in which particles or waves undergo multiple collisions with the microscopic constituents of a surrounding medium, is central to understanding diffusive transport across many research areas. However, this…

We experimentally investigate spectral statistics in Anderson localization in two-dimensional amorphous disordered media. Intensity distributions captured over an ultrabroad wavelength range of $\sim 600$~nm and averaged over numerous…

Optics · Physics 2019-11-06 Sandip Mondal , Randhir Kumar , Martin Kamp , Sushil Mujumdar

We consider diagonal disordered one-dimensional Anderson models with an underlying periodicity. We assume the simplest periodicity, i.e., we have essentially two lattices, one that is composed of the random potentials and the other of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-30 Michael Hilke

We have combined two remarkable phenomena: resonance tunneling and Anderson localization. It results in unexpected spectrum reverse to usual notions. It is demonstrated by the quantum system with chaotic distribution of potential resonance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. M. Chabanov , B. N. Zakhariev

Active particles (i.e., self-propelled particles or called microswimmers), different from passive Brownian particles, possess more complicated translational and angular dynamics, which can generate a series of anomalous transport phenomena.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-05 Ze-Hao Chen , Zhi-Xi Wu

We numerically study the dynamics of cold atoms in a two-dimensional disordered potential. We consider an anisotropic speckle potential and focus on the classical regime, which is relevant to some recent experiments. First, we study the…

The phenomenon of electronic wave localization through disorder was introduced by Anderson in 1958 in the context of electron transport in solids. It remains an important area of fundamental and applied research. Localization of all wave…

Physics Education · Physics 2016-10-12 K. J. Kemp , S. Barker , J. Guthrie , B. Hagood , M. D. Havey

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

We discuss the dynamics of particles in one dimension in potentials that are random both in space and in time. The results are applied to recent optics experiments on Anderson localization, in which the transverse spreading of a beam is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-08-30 Yevgeny Krivolapov , Liad Levi , Shmuel Fishman , Mordechai Segev , Michael Wilkinson