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Non-Hermitian systems with non-reciprocal hopping may display the non-Hermitian skin effect, where states under open boundary conditions localize exponentially at one edge of the system. This localization has been linked to spectral winding…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-01 Clément Fortin , Kai Wang , T. Pereg-Barnea

The interaction between non-reciprocity and disorder-free localization has emerged as a fascinating open question. Here, we explore the effects of pseudo mobility edges (MEs) along with different types of eigenstates in a one-dimensional…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-30 Yu-Jun Zhao , Han-Ze Li , Xuyang Huang , Shan-Zhong Li , Jian-Xin Zhong

We follow the dynamics of nonlinear waves in two-dimensional disordered lattices with tunable nonlinearity. In the absence of nonlinear terms Anderson localization traps the packet in space. For the nonlinear case a destruction of Anderson…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-03-15 T. V. Laptyeva , J. D. Bodyfelt , S. Flach

Anderson localization is ubiquitous in wavy systems with strong static and uncorrelated disorder. The delicate destructive interference underlying Anderson localization is usually washed out in the presence of temporal fluctuations or…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-03-25 Stefano Longhi

Distant boundaries in linear non-Hermitian lattices can dramatically change energy eigenvalues and corresponding eigenstates in a nonlocal way. This effect is known as non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE). Combining non-Hermitian skin effect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 C. Yuce

The phenomenon of localization is usually accompanied with the presence of quenched disorder. To what extent disorder is necessary for localization is a well-known open problem. In this paper, we prove the instability of localization in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-01-06 Yichen Huang , Aram W. Harrow

The spectral approach to infinite disordered crystals is applied to an Anderson-type Hamiltonian to demonstrate the existence of extended states for nonzero disorder in 2D lattices of different geometries. The numerical simulations shown…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-12-13 E G Kostadinova , K Busse , N Ellis , J Padgett , C D Liaw , L S Matthews , T W Hyde

In lattices with uncorrelated on-site potential disorder, Anderson localization near the band edges can exhibit anomalously weak localization in the form of Lifshitz tail states. These states correspond to clusters of contiguous sites with…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-25 Stefano Longhi

We consider the effect of weak disorder on eigenstates in a special class of tight-binding models. Models in this class have short-range hopping on periodic lattices; their defining feature is that the clean systems have some energy bands…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-10-04 J. T. Chalker , T. S. Pickles , Pragya Shukla

A new type of delocalization induced by coherent harmonic perturbations in one-dimensional Anderson-localized disordered systems is investigated. With only a few $M$ frequencies a normal diffusion is realized, but the transition to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-04-14 Hiroaki S. Yamada , Kensuke S. Ikeda

Disorder in moire superlattices simultaneously degrades flat-band localization and induces Anderson localization, yet how these two regimes interact has remained unclear. Here, we introduce a combined framework linking localization-length…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-23 Qian Liu , Xiaoshuang Xia , Junjie Wang , Peilong Hong , Lei Xu , Lujun Huang , Daohong Song , Yi Liang

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is a well-known phenomenon in open topological systems that causes a large number of eigenstates to become localized at the boundary. Although many aspects of its theory have been investigated in linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-15 Hamed Ghaemi-Dizicheh

The interplay between non-Hermiticity and disorder gives rise to unique universality classes of Anderson transitions. Here, we develop a field-theoretical description of non-Hermitian disordered systems based on fermionic replica nonlinear…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-10 Ze Chen , Kohei Kawabata , Anish Kulkarni , Shinsei Ryu

Local constraint in the lattice gauge theory provides an exotic mechanism that facilitates the disorder-free localization. However, the understanding of nonequilibrium dynamics in the non-Hermitian lattice gauge model remains limited. Here,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-02-22 Jun-Qing Cheng , Shuai Yin , Dao-Xin Yao

We report a novel localization phenomenon that emerges in non-Hermitian and quasiperiodic coupled systems, which we dub ``Anderson-Skin (AS) dualism". The emergence of AS dualism is due to the fact that non-Hermitian topological systems…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-11-18 Shan-Zhong Li , Linhu Li , Shi-Liang Zhu , Zhi Li

We study numerically the effects of nonlinearity on the Anderson localization in lattices with disorder in one and two dimensions. The obtained results show that at moderate strength of nonlinearity an unlimited spreading over the lattice…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-02-09 Ignacio Garcia-Mata , Dima L. Shepelyansky

We study the critical behaviour of Anderson localized modes near intersecting flat and dispersive bands in the quasi-one-dimensional diamond ladder with weak diagonal disorder $W$. The localization length $\xi$ of the flat band states…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-12-23 Daniel Leykam , Sergej Flach , Omri Bahat-Treidel , Anton S. Desyatnikov

A hallmark of photonic transport in non-Hermitian lattices with asymmetric hopping is the robust unidirectional flow of light, which is responsible for important phenomena such as the non-Hermitian skin effect. Here we show that the same…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-15 Stefano Longhi

Non-Hermitian effects could create rich dynamical and topological phase structures. In this work, we show that the collaboration between lattice dimerization and non-Hermiticity could generally bring about mobility edges and multiple…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-02-18 Wenqian Han , Longwen Zhou

We determine the propagation properties of a quantum particle in a d-dimensional lattice with hopping disorder, delta-correlated in time. The system is delocalized: the averaged transition probability shows a diffusive behavior. Then,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. C. Ferrario , V. G. Benza