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We study the three-dimensional Anderson model of localization with anisotropic hopping, i.e. weakly coupled chains and weakly coupled planes. In our extensive numerical study we identify and characterize the metal-insulator transition using…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-15 Frank Milde , Rudolf A. Römer , Michael Schreiber

Impurities, defects, and other types of imperfections are ubiquitous in realistic quantum many-body systems and essentially unavoidable in solid state materials. Often, such random disorder is viewed purely negatively as it is believed to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-21 Thomas Vojta

A universality class describing the statistics of the merging of two single polymer strands to a double polymer strand and the reverse process is examined. The polymers can have an intrinsic direction, and the simpler case, where only…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-20 R. Dengler

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

Rydberg atom arrays promise high-fidelity quantum simulations of critical phenomena with flexible geometries. Yet experimental realizations inevitably suffer from disorder due to random displacements of atoms, leading to departures from the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-02 Xingyu Li , Shuyan Zhou , Xue Chen , Chengshu Li , Hanteng Wang

Two-dimensional topological insulators are characterized by an insulating bulk and conductive edge states protected by the nontrivial topology of the bulk electronic structure. They remain robust against moderate disorder until Anderson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Roberta Favata , Nicolas Baù , Antimo Marrazzo

A generalization of the single-parameter scaling theory of localization is proposed for the case when the random potential depends on temperature. The scaling equation describing the behavior of the resistance is derived. It is shown that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 B. L. Altshuler , D. L. Maslov , V. M. Pudalov

In this paper, the influence of the quasidisorder on a two-dimensional system is studied. We find that there exists a topological phase transition accompanied by a transverse Anderson localization. The topological properties are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-08-09 Shujie Cheng , Reza Asgari , Gao Xianlong

Anderson localization is a phase transition between a metallic phase, where wavefunctions are extended and delocalized in space, and an insulating phase, where wavefunctions are completely localized. These transitions are driven by…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-30 Pasquale Marra

We establish the theory of critical transport in amorphous Chern insulators and show that it lies beyond the current paradigm of topological criticality epitomized by the quantum Hall transitions. We consider models of Chern insulators on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Moein N. Ivaki , Isac Sahlberg , Teemu Ojanen

Topological states of matter in disordered systems without translation symmetry have attracted great interest in recent years. These states with topological characters are not only robust against certain disorders, but also can be…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-08 Dan-Wei Zhang , Ling-Zhi Tang

The multifractality of the critical eigenstate at the metal to insulator transition (MIT) in the three-dimensional Anderson model of localization is characterized by its associated singularity spectrum f(alpha). Recent works in 1D and 2D…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-11-12 Louella J. Vasquez , Alberto Rodriguez , Rudolf A. Roemer

A zero temperature Anderson-Mott transition driven by spin disorder can be `tuned' by an applied magnetic field to achieve colossal magnetoconductance. Usually this is not possible since spin disorder by itself cannot localise a high…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Pinaki Majumdar , Sanjeev Kumar

We investigate the disorder-driven phase transition from a fractional quantum Hall state to an Anderson insulator using quantum entanglement methods. We find that the transition is signaled by a sharp increase in the sensitivity of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-09 Zhao Liu , R. N. Bhatt

In this paper we present a determinant quantum monte carlo study of the two dimensional Hubbard model with random site disorder. We show that, as in the case of bond disorder, the system undergoes a transition from an Anderson insulating…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 P. B. Chakraborty , P. J. H. Denteneer , R. T. Scalettar

We present the metal - insulator transition study of a quantum site percolation model on simple cubic lattice. Transfer matrix method is used to calculate transport properties - Landauer conductance - for the binary distribution of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Igor Travenec

Due to their analytical tractability, random matrix ensembles serve as robust platforms for exploring exotic phenomena in systems that are computationally demanding. Building on a companion letter [arXiv:2312.17481], this paper investigates…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-08-01 Weitao Chen , Olivier Giraud , Jiangbin Gong , Gabriel Lemarié

Wave localization is ubiquitous in disordered media -- from amorphous materials, where soft-mode localization is closely related to materials failure, to semi-conductors, where Anderson localization leads to metal-insulator transition. Our…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-30 Tingtao Zhou , Dimitrios Fraggedakis , Fan Wang

The analytical approach developed by us for the calculation of the phase diagram for the Anderson localization via disorder [J.Phys.: Condens. Matter 14, 13777 (2002)] is generalized here to the case of a strong magnetic field when $q$…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-06-12 V N Kuzovkov

Phase transitions governed by topological defects constitute a cornerstone of modern physics. Two-dimensional (2D) Anderson transitions in chiral symmetry classes are driven by the proliferation of vortex-antivortex pairs -- a mechanism…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-11-18 Pengwei Zhao , Ryuichi Shindou
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