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The location of the mobility edge is a long standing problem in Anderson localization. In this paper, we show that the effective confining potential introduced in the localization landscape (LL) theory predicts the onset of delocalization…

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We investigate localization properties in a two-coupled uniform chains with quasiperiodic modulation on interchain coupling strength. We demonstrate that this ladder is equivalent to a Aubry-Andre (AA) chain when two legs are symmetric.…

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The non-Hermitian skin effect is fundamentally characterized by its sensitivity to boundary conditions, reflected in changes to the energy spectrum and boundary-localized eigenstates. Here, we demonstrate that a spatially inhomogeneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Zheng Wei , Ji-Yao Fan , Kui Cao , Xin-Ran Ma , Cui-Xian Guo , Xue-Ping Ren , Su-Peng Kou

We study the localization transitions for coupled one-dimensional lattices with quasiperiodic potential. Besides the localized and extended phases there is an intermediate mixed phase which can be easily explained decoupling the system so…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-05-21 M. Rossignolo , L. Dell'Anna

Recent experiments on non-interacting ultra-cold atoms in correlated disorder have yielded conflicting results regarding the so-called mobility edge, i.e. the energy threshold separating Anderson localized from diffusive states. At the same…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-03 Michael Pasek , Giuliano Orso , Dominique Delande

In this paper, we study a one-dimensional tight-binding model with tunable incommensurate potentials. Through the analysis of the inverse participation rate, we uncover that the wave functions corresponding to the energies of the system…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-02-02 Tong Liu , Yufei Zhu , Shujie Cheng , Feng Li , Hao Guo , Yong Pu

In this paper we discussed the topological transition between trivial and nontrivial phases of a quasi-periodic (Aubry-Andr\'e like) mechanical Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model. We find that there exists a nontrivial boundary separating the…

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A unique phenomenon in non-Hermitian systems is the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), namely the boundary localization of continuous-spectrum eigenstates. However, studies on the NHSE in systems without translational invariance are still…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Heng Lin , Jinghui Pi , Yunyao Qi , Wei Qin , Franco Nori , Gui-Lu Long

In ordered, translationally invariant non-Hermitian systems, the skin effect is understood as a boundary phenomenon: nonreciprocal hopping drives an extensive accumulation of eigenstates towards the edges, whereas the periodic-boundary…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-02 Yeyang Sun , Shu Yang , Yi Yang

We investigate localization properties in a family of deterministic (i.e. no disorder) nearest neighbor tight binding models with quasiperiodic onsite modulation. We prove that this family is self-dual under a generalized duality…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-04-16 Sriram Ganeshan , J. H. Pixley , S. Das Sarma

We show that a mobility edge exists in 1D random potentials provided specific long-range correlations. Our approach is based on the relation between binary correlator of a site potential and the localization length. We give the algorithm to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 F. M. Izrailev , A. A. Krokhin

Harper's equation (aka the "almost Mathieu" equation) famously describes the quantum dynamics of an electron on a one dimensional lattice in the presence of an incommensurate potential with magnitude $V$ and wave number $Q$. It has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-29 Yi Zhang , Daniel Bulmash , Akash V. Maharaj , Chao-Ming Jian , Steven A. Kivelson

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), characterized by a macroscopic accumulation of eigenstates at the edge of a system with open boundaries, is often ascribed to a non-trivial point-gap topology of the Bloch Hamiltonian. We revisit this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-07 J. Sirker

The discovery of the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) has revolutionized our understanding of wave propagation in non-Hermitian systems, highlighting unexpected localization effects beyond conventional theories. Here, we discover that NHSE,…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-14 Ningxin Kong , Chenghe Yu , Yilun Xu , Matteo Fadel , Xinyao Huang , Qiongyi He

Consider a random block matrix model consisting of $D$ random systems arranged along a circle, where each system is modeled by an independent $N\times N$ complex Hermitian Wigner matrix. Neighboring systems interact via an arbitrary…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-14 Jiaqi Fan , Bertrand Stone , Fan Yang , Jun Yin

A basis of Bloch waves, distorted locally by the random potential, is introduced for electrons in the Anderson model. Matrix elements of the Hamiltonian between these distorted waves are averages over infinite numbers of independent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Wolfram T. Arnold , Roger Haydock

Non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is one of the most fascinating phenomena in non-Hermitian systems, which refers to enormous eigenstates localize at the boundary exponentially under open boundary condition (OBC). For typical NHSE, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Shu-Xuan Wang

We present a large scale exact diagonalization study of the one dimensional spin $1/2$ Heisenberg model in a random magnetic field. In order to access properties at varying energy densities across the entire spectrum for system sizes up to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-05 David J. Luitz , Nicolas Laflorencie , Fabien Alet

Unlike their Hermitian counterparts, non-Hermitian (NH) systems may display an exponential sensitivity to boundary conditions and an extensive number of edge-localized states in systems with open boundaries, a phenomena dubbed the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-04-14 Jahan Claes , Taylor L. Hughes

A unique feature of non-Hermitian (NH) systems is the NH skin effect, i.e. the edge localization of an extensive number of bulk-band eigenstates in a lattice with open or semi-infinite boundaries. Unlike extended Bloch waves in Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-14 Stefano Longhi