Localization in one-dimensional lattices with non-nearest-neighbor hopping: Generalized Anderson and Aubry-Andre models
- Condensed Matter Theory Center, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 (United States)
- University of Missouri, Kansas City, Department of Physics, Kansas City, Missouri, 64110 (United States)
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 Aubry-Andre and noninteracting Anderson models. For the case with deterministic disordered potential induced by a secondary incommensurate lattice (i.e., the Aubry-Andre model), we identify a class of self-dual models, for which the boundary between localized and extended eigenstates are determined analytically by employing a generalized Aubry-Andre transformation. We also numerically investigate the localization properties of nondual models with next-nearest-neighbor hopping, Gaussian, and power-law decay hopping terms. We find that even for these nondual models, the numerically obtained mobility edges can be well approximated by the analytically obtained condition for localization transition in the self-dual models, as long as the decay of the hopping rate with respect to distance is sufficiently fast. For the disordered potential with genuinely random character, we examine scenarios with next-nearest-neighbor hopping, exponential, Gaussian, and power-law decay hopping terms numerically. We find that the higher-order hopping terms can remove the symmetry in the localization length about the energy band center compared to the Anderson model. Furthermore, our results demonstrate that for the power-law decay case, there exists a critical exponent below which mobility edges can be found. Our theoretical results could, in principle, be directly tested in shallow atomic optical lattice systems enabling non-nearest-neighbor hopping.
- OSTI ID:
- 21538122
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Vol. 83, Issue 7; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.075105; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 1098-0121
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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