Non-Hermitian topological Anderson insulators

Non-Hermitian systems can exhibit exotic topological and localization properties.Here we elucidate the non-Hermitian effects on disordered topological systems using a nonreciprocal disordered Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model.We show that the non-Hermiticity can enhance the topological phase against disorders by increasing bulk gaps.Moreover,we uncover a topological phase which emerges under both moderate non-Hermiticity and disorders,and is characterized by localized insulating bulk states with a disorder-averaged winding number and zero-energy edge modes.Such topological phases induced by the combination of non-Hermiticity and disorders are dubbed non-Hermitian topological Anderson insulators.We reveal that the system has unique non-monotonous localization behavior and the topological transition is accompanied by an Anderson transition.These properties are general in other non-Hermitian models.     

Energy transfer and Anderson localization

The temporal decay characteristics of the donor fluorescence for inhomogeneously broadened optical lines is shown to be a direct determination of excitation localization, in the Anderson sense.     

Anderson Localization in Dissipative Lattices

Anderson localization predicts that wave spreading in disordered lattices can come to a complete halt, providing a universal mechanism for dynamical localization. In the one-dimensional Hermitian Anderson model with uncorrelated diagonal disorder, there is a one-to-one correspondence between dynamical localization and spectral localization, that is, the exponential localization of all the Hamiltonian eigenfunctions. This correspondence can be broken when dealing with disordered dissipative lattices. When the system exchanges particles with the surrounding environment and random fluctuations of the dissipation are introduced, spectral localization is observed but without dynamical localization. Previous studies consider lattices with mixed conservative (Hamiltonian) and dissipative dynamics and are restricted to a semiclassical analysis. However, Anderson localization in purely dissipative lattices, displaying an entirely Lindbladian dynamics, remains largely unexplored. Here the purely-dissipative Anderson model in the framework of a Lindblad master equation is considered, and it is shown that, akin to the semiclassical models with conservative hopping and random dissipation, one observes dynamical delocalization in spite of strong spectral localization of the Liouvillian superoperator. This result is very distinct from delocalization observed in the Anderson model with dephasing, where dynamical delocalization arises from the delocalization of the stationary state of the Liouvillian.     

Anderson localization and wave absorption

Experimental signatures of classical wave localization in the absence and in the presence of attenuation are analyzed. The different regimes of the attenuation, reflection, and transmission coefficients for the diffusive and localized regimes are discussed. Apparent contradictory results presented previously by John and Anderson on the renormalization of absorption by localization are reconciled and shown to apply to different situations.     

Localization for a Matrix-valued Anderson Model

We study localization properties for a class of one-dimensional, matrix-valued, continuous, random Schrödinger operators, acting on $L^2(\mathbb R)\otimes \mathbb C^NWe study localization properties for a class of one-dimensional, matrix-valued, continuous, random Schr?dinger operators, acting on , for arbitrary N ≥ 1. We prove that, under suitable assumptions on the Fürstenberg group of these operators, valid on an interval , they exhibit localization properties on I, both in the spectral and dynamical sense. After looking at the regularity properties of the Lyapunov exponents and of the integrated density of states, we prove a Wegner estimate and apply a multiscale analysis scheme to prove localization for these operators. We also study an example in this class of operators, for which we can prove the required assumptions on the Fürstenberg group. This group being the one generated by the transfer matrices, we can use, to prove these assumptions, an algebraic result on generating dense Lie subgroups in semisimple real connected Lie groups, due to Breuillard and Gelander. The algebraic methods used here allow us to handle with singular distributions of the random parameters.      

Multi-Scale Jacobi Method for Anderson Localization

We prove that the fluctuations of mesoscopic linear statistics for orthogonal polynomial ensembles are universal in the sense that two measures with asymptotic recurrence coefficients have the same asymptotic mesoscopic fluctuations (under an additional assumption on the local regularity of one of the measures). The convergence rate of the recurrence coefficients determines the range of scales on which the limiting fluctuations are identical. Our main tool is an analysis of the Green’s function for the associated Jacobi matrices.As a particular consequencewe obtain a central limit theorem for the modified Jacobi Unitary Ensembles on all mesoscopic scales.     

Self-consistent treatment of the Anderson model

TheN-fold degenerate Anderson single impurity model in the infiniteU limit is treated by means of the irreducible Green functions method. In this approach a derivation of an exact Dyson equation and an exact self-energy operator is possible. The necessity of introducing auxiliary fields, such as slave-bosons is avoided.     

Dynamical Localization for Unitary Anderson Models

This paper establishes dynamical localization properties of certain families of unitary random operators on the d-dimensional lattice in various regimes. These operators are generalizations of one-dimensional physical models of quantum transport and draw their name from the analogy with the discrete Anderson model of solid state physics. They consist in a product of a deterministic unitary operator and a random unitary operator. The deterministic operator has a band structure, is absolutely continuous and plays the role of the discrete Laplacian. The random operator is diagonal with elements given by i.i.d. random phases distributed according to some absolutely continuous measure and plays the role of the random potential. In dimension one, these operators belong to the family of CMV-matrices in the theory of orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle. We implement the method of Aizenman-Molchanov to prove exponential decay of the fractional moments of the Green function for the unitary Anderson model in the following three regimes: In any dimension, throughout the spectrum at large disorder and near the band edges at arbitrary disorder and, in dimension one, throughout the spectrum at arbitrary disorder. We also prove that exponential decay of fractional moments of the Green function implies dynamical localization, which in turn implies spectral localization. These results complete the analogy with the self-adjoint case where dynamical localization is known to be true in the same three regimes.     

A statistical test of Anderson localization

Numerical demonstrations of localization in random systems are difficult to obtain and interpret because of statistical fluctuations in the electron probability density. This difficulty can be avoided through the use of correlation functions defined in terms of the electron probability density. The fluctuations can then be eliminated by averaging over a large number of Anderson Hamiltonians. The resulting averaged correlation functions clearly show that electrons are exponentially localized. The localization demonstrated here is sufficient to insure a zero dc conductivity in the limit of large systems.