Related papers: Anderson localization via Peierls phase modulation
Anderson localization is a universal phenomenon affecting non-interacting quantum particles in disorder. In three spatial dimensions it becomes particularly interesting to study because of the presence of a quantum phase transition from…
We investigate a generalized Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper (AAH) model with p-wave superconducting pairing. Both the hopping amplitudes between the nearest neighboring lattice sites and the on-site potentials in this system are modulated by a cosine…
Controlling the magnetic properties of nanosystems by an electric field offers a number of advantages for spintronics applications. Using the noncollinear Alexander-Anderson model, we have shown that the interaction of localized magnetic…
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…
We investigate the ground state properties of ultracold atoms trapped in a two-leg ladder potential in the presence of an artificial magnetic field in a staggered configuration. We focus on the strongly interacting regime and use the Landau…
A double--layer system in a strong perpendicular magnetic field is considered. We assume a random potential in each layer to be smooth. We also assume that there is no correlation between random potentials in different layers. Under these…
The system of interacting spinless fermions hopping on a two-leg ladder exhibits a series of quantum phase transitions when subjected to an external magnetic field. At half filling, these are either U(1) Gaussian phase transitions between…
We study the tunneling phenomenon of a ladder system with a Peierls distortion in a magnetic flux, and the response of electrons the insulator is investigated when the tunneling current flows on one-dimensional gapped chains along the…
The experimental realization of various spin ladder systems has prompted their detailed theoretical investigations. Here we study the evolution of ground state magnetization with an external magnetic field for two different…
The ground-state magnetic phase diagram of a spin $S=1/2$ two-leg ladder with alternating rung exchange $J_{\perp}(n)=J_{\perp}[1 + (-1)^{n} \delta]$ is studied using the analytical and numerical approaches. In the limit where the rung…
The Anderson localization transition is one of the most well studied examples of a zero temperature quantum phase transition. On the other hand, many open questions remain about the phenomenology of disordered systems driven far out of…
We study the quantum localization phenomena of noninteracting particles in one-dimensional lattices based on tight-binding models with various forms of hopping terms beyond the nearest neighbor, which are generalizations of the famous…
We investigate low-lying fermion modes in SU(2) gauge theory at temperatures above the phase transition. Both staggered and overlap spectra reveal transitions from chaotic (random matrix) to integrable (Poissonian) behavior accompanied by…
We theoretically show the possibility to induce magnetic ordering in non-magnetic one-dimensional systems of strongly interacting electrons hopping on a tight-binding lattice. Our analysis is provided within the framework of the t1-t2…
The Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper model provides a paradigmatic example of aperiodic order in a one-dimensional lattice displaying a delocalization-localization phase transition at a finite critical value $V_c$ of the quasiperiodic potential…
We investigate the dynamical transfer of bipartite entanglement through a two-leg spin-1/2 ladder governed by the anisotropic Heisenberg (XXZ-type) model with a selective magnetic field applied exclusively to the mediating rungs. Starting…
The Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper (AAH) model with a self-dual symmetry plays an important role in studying the Anderson localization. Here we find a self-dual symmetry determining the quantum phase transition between extended and localized states…
We predict the new type of phase transition in quasi one-dimensional system of interacting electrons at high magnetic fields, the stabilization of a density wave which transforms a two dimensional open Fermi surface into a periodic chain of…
We study a quasiperiodic Aubry Andre lattice arranged along a spiral curve. In this setup, the changing angle of the spiral naturally stretches and compresses the distances between neighboring sites, which in turn modulates the hopping…
In this paper we demonstrate, using a couple of variants of a two-strand ladder network that, a quasiperiodic Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper (AAH) modulation applied to the vertical strands, mimicking a deterministic distortion in the network, can…