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This tutorial review gives an overview of the transverse Anderson localization of light in one and two transverse dimensions. A pedagogical approach is followed throughout the presentation, where many aspects of localization are illustrated…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-05 Arash Mafi

We establish a localization phase diagram for light in a random three-dimensional (3D) ensemble of motionless two-level atoms with a three-fold degenerate upper level, in a strong static magnetic field. Localized modes appear in a narrow…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 S. E. Skipetrov

The Anderson transition in a 3D system with symplectic symmetry is investigated numerically. From a one-parameter scaling analysis the critical exponent $\nu$ of the localization length is extracted and estimated to be $\nu = 1.3 \pm 0.2$.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 T. Kawarabayashi , T. Ohtsuki , K. Slevin , Y. Ono

Anderson transition of the phonon modes is studied numerically. The critical exponent for the divergence of the localization length is estimated using the transfer matrix method, and the statistics of the modes is analyzed. The latter is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yasuyuki Akita , Tomi Ohtsuki

We present a numerical study of electromagnetic wave transport in disordered quasi-one-dimensional waveguides at terahertz frequencies. Finite element method calculations of terahertz wave propagation within LiNbO$_{3}$ waveguides with…

We study the critical dynamics of matter waves at the 3D Anderson mobility edge in cold-atom disorder quench experiments. General scaling arguments are supported by precision numerics for the spectral function, diffusion coefficient, and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-09-20 Cord A. Müller , Dominique Delande , Boris Shapiro

We study the Anderson transition for three-dimensional (3D) $N \times N \times N$ tightly bound cubic lattices where both real and imaginary parts of onsite energies are independent random variables distributed uniformly between $-W/2$ and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-01-29 Yi Huang , B. I. Shklovskii

We report on anomalous light transport in the strong scattering regime. Using low-coherence interferometry, we measure the reflection matrix of titanium dioxide powders, revealing crucial features of strong optical scattering which can not…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-08-11 Laura A. Cobus , Georg Maret , Alexandre Aubry

The self-consistent theory of Anderson localization of quantum particles or classical waves in disordered media is reviewed. After presenting the basic concepts of the theory of Anderson localization in the case of electrons in disordered…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-18 P. Wölfle , D. Vollhardt

Anderson localization was discovered 50 years ago to describe the propagation of electrons in the presence of disorder. The main prediction back then, was the existence of disorder induced localized states, which do not conduct electricity.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Hilke

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 the transport of classical waves through three-dimensional (3D) anisotropic media close to the Anderson localization transition. Time-, frequency-, and position-resolved ultrasonic measurements are performed on anisotropic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-01-04 Antton Goïcoechea , Sergey E. Skipetrov , John H. Page

We investigate Anderson transitions for a system of two particles moving in a three-dimensional disordered lattice and subject to on-site (Hubbard) interactions of strength U. The two-body problem is exactly mapped into an effective…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-07-19 Filippo Stellin , Giuliano Orso

We report a finite size scaling study of the Anderson transition. Different scaling functions and different values for the critical exponent have been found, consistent with the existence of the orthogonal and unitary universality classes…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-30 Keith Slevin , Tomi Ohtsuki

The three-dimensional Anderson model represents a paradigmatic model to understand the Anderson localization transition. In this work we first review some key results obtained for this model in the past 50 years, and then study its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-15 Jan Šuntajs , Tomaž Prosen , Lev Vidmar

Strong localization of light in three-dimensional disordered dielectric systems remains challenging to establish because it requires extremely strong recurrent scattering, while the long-lived localized contribution can be weak and masked…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-26 Yevgen Grynko , Jens Förstner

Anderson localization, the absence of diffusive transport in disordered systems, has been manifested as hopping transport in numerous electronic systems, whereas in recently discovered topological insulators it has not been directly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jian Liao , Yunbo Ou , Xiao Feng , Shuo Yang , Chaojing Lin , Wenmin Yang , Kehui Wu , Ke He , Xucun Ma , Qi-Kun Xue , Yongqing Li

A model in which a three-dimensional elastic medium is represented by a network of identical masses connected by springs of random strengths and allowed to vibrate only along a selected axis of the reference frame, exhibits an Anderson…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-12-04 Y. M. Beltukov , S. E. Skipetrov

Localization-delocalization transition in a discrete Anderson nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with disorder is shown to be a critical phenomenon $-$ similar to a percolation transition on a disordered lattice, with the nonlinearity…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-03-20 A. V. Milovanov , A. Iomin

We investigate Anderson localization in a three dimensional (3d) kicked rotor. By a finite size scaling analysis we have identified a mobility edge for a certain value of the kicking strength $k = k_c$. For $k > k_c$ dynamical localization…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-02-17 Jiao Wang , Antonio M. Garcia-Garcia