English

Generic mobility edges in several classes of duality-breaking one-dimensional quasiperiodic potentials

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2023-06-30 v2

Abstract

We obtain approximate solutions defining the mobility edge separating localized and extended states for several classes of generic one-dimensional quasiperiodic models. We validate our analytical ansatz with exact numerical calculations. Rather amazingly, we provide a single simple ansatz for the generic mobility edge, which is satisfied by quasiperiodic models involving many different types of nonsinusoidal incommensurate potentials as well as many different types of long-range hopping models. Our ansatz agrees precisely with the well-known limiting cases of the sinusoidal Aubry-Andr\'{e} model (which has no mobility edge) and the generalized Aubry-Andr\'{e} models (which have analytical mobility edges). Our work provides a practical tool for estimating the location of mobility edges in quasiperiodic systems.

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@article{arxiv.2304.06081,
  title  = {Generic mobility edges in several classes of duality-breaking one-dimensional quasiperiodic potentials},
  author = {DinhDuy Vu and Sankar Das Sarma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.06081},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

8 pages, 7 figures

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