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Transport and spectral properties of strongly disordered chains
Phys. Rev. B 31, 3518 – Published 15 March, 1985
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.31.3518
Abstract
As a function of a parameter α, measuring the amount of disorder, we derive asymptotic results (including higher corrections) for the density of eigenstates scrN(E) and the inverse localization length γ(E) at frequencies =E→0 in a harmonic chain with random masses. The same is done for the frequency-dependent diffusion coefficient (z) and Burnett coefficient (z) as z→0 in the hopping random barrier (RBM) and random jump rate models (RJM) with static disorder (bond and site problem, respectively). The disorder is described by random jump rates or random masses =1/ with a probability distribution ρ(w)=(1-α)CTHETA(1-w) with α<1. With increasing disorder, i.e., increasing α, the above quantities pass from universal behavior in weakly disordered systems through several regions of nonuniversal behavior. A typical result is the long-time tail of the velocity autocorrelation function in the RBM: & with =2/(2-α) for 0<α<1, =1-α/2 for -1<α<0, and =(3/2) (universal) for α<-1, with crossover behavior (t)∼ (ln t at α=0 and (t)∼ ln t at α=-1.
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