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The Anderson metal-insulator transition is a continuous phase transition driven by disorder. It remains a challenging problem to theoretically determine universal critical properties at the transition. The Anderson transition in a model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. W. Brouwer , A. Furusaki , C. Mudry , S. Ryu

We find that Anderson localization ceases to exist when a random medium begins to move, but another type of fundamental quantum effect, Planckian diffusion $D = \alpha\hbar/m$, rises to replace it, with $\alpha $ of order of unity.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-02 Yubo Zhang , Anton M. Graf , Alhun Aydin , Joonas Keski-Rahkonen , Eric J. Heller

In the absence of nonlinearity all eigenmodes of a chain with disorder are spatially localized (Anderson localization). The width of the eigenvalue spectrum, and the average eigenvalue spacing inside the localization volume, set two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Flach , D. Krimer , Ch. Skokos

The nature of the critical point of the Anderson transition in high magnetic fields is discussed with an emphasis on scale invariance and universality of the critical exponent. Special attention is paid to the distribution function of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tomi Ohtsuki , Keith Slevin , Tohru Kawarabayashi

A review of recent progress in numerical studies of the Anderson transition in three dimensional systems is presented. From high precision calculations the critical exponent $\nu$ for the divergence of the localization length is estimated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-27 Tomi Ohtsuki , Keith Slevin , Tohru Kawarabayashi

This paper proposes a simple model of anomalous diffusion, in which a particle moves with the velocity field induced by a single "dipole" (a doublet or a pair of source and sink), whose moment is modulated randomly at each time step. A…

We conduct a numerical study of wave localization in disordered three-dimensional non-Hermitian systems featuring exceptional points. The energy spectrum of a disordered non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, exhibiting both parity-time and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-09-30 C. Wang , X. R. Wang

The physics of Anderson transitions between localized and metallic phases in disordered systems is reviewed. The term ``Anderson transition'' is understood in a broad sense, including both metal-insulator transitions and quantum-Hall-type…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-20 F. Evers , A. D. Mirlin

Disordered non-interacting systems are classified into ten symmetry classes, with the unitary class being the most fundamental. The three and four dimensional unitary universality classes are attracting renewed interest because of their…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-09-27 Keith Slevin , Tomi Ohtsuki

Diffusive transport is among the most common phenomena in nature [1]. However, as predicted by Anderson [2], diffusion may break down due to interference. This transition from diffusive transport to localization of waves should occur for…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Martin Störzer , Peter Gross , Christof M. Aegerter , Georg Maret

Light transport in a disordered ensemble of resonant atoms placed in a waveguide is found to be very sensitive to the sizes of cross section of a waveguide. Based on self-consistent quantum microscopic model treating atoms as coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 A. S. Kuraptsev , I. M. Sokolov

Anderson localization (AL) is a ubiquitous interference phenomenon in which waves fail to propagate in a disordered medium. We observe three-dimensional AL of noninteracting ultracold matter by allowing a spin-polarized atomic Fermi gas to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-10-12 S. S. Kondov , W. R. McGehee , J. J. Zirbel , B. DeMarco

We study electron propagation through a random array of rare, opaque and large (compared the de Broglie wavelength of electrons) scatterers. It is shown that for any convex scatterer the ratio of the transport to quantum lifetimes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Vladimir I. Yudson , Dmitrii L. Maslov

Diffusion of electrons in a two-dimensional system with time-dependent random potentials is investigated numerically. In the absence of spin-orbit scattering, the conductivity shows universal weak localization correction. In the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Takeshi Nakanishi , Tomi Ohtsuki

Anderson localization is related to exponential localization of a particle in the configuration space in the presence of a disorder potential. Anderson localization can be also observed in the momentum space and corresponds to quantum…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Krzysztof Giergiel , Krzysztof Sacha

The conductance of a quantum wire with off-diagonal disorder that preserves a sublattice symmetry (the random hopping problem with chiral symmetry) is considered. Transport at the band center is anomalous relative to the standard problem of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Christopher Mudry , P. W. Brouwer , Akira Furusaki

The method proposed by the present authors to deal analytically with the problem of Anderson localization via disorder [J.Phys.: Condens. Matter {\bf 14} (2002) 13777] is generalized for higher spatial dimensions D. In this way the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Kuzovkov , W. von Niessen

We investigate the possibility of an Anderson transition below two dimensions in disordered systems of non-interacting electrons with symplectic symmetry. Numerical analysis of energy level statistics and conductance statistics on…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Yoichi Asada , Keith Slevin , Tomi Ohtsuki

The three-dimensional Anderson model with a rectangular distribution of site disorder displays two distinct localization-delocalization transitions, against varying disorder intensity, for a relatively narrow range of Fermi energies. Such…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-31 S. L. A. de Queiroz

From transfer-matrix calculation of localization lengths and their finite-size scaling analyses, we evaluate critical exponents of the Anderson metal-insulator transition in three dimensional (3D) orthogonal class with particle-hole…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-01-29 Xunlong Luo , Baolong Xu , Tomi Ohtsuki , Ryuichi Shindou