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Phys. Rev. B 73, 045118 (2006) [10 pages]

Phase diagram for Anderson disorder: Beyond single-parameter scaling

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Nigel Goldenfeld
Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA and Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, United Kingdom

Roger Haydock
Department of Physics and Materials Science Institute, 1274 University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403-1274, USA

Received 18 September 2005; revised 30 November 2005; published 20 January 2006

The Anderson model for independent electrons in a disordered potential is transformed analytically and exactly to a basis of random extended states leading to a variant of augmented space. In addition to the widely accepted phase diagrams in all physical dimensions, a plethora of additional, weaker Anderson transitions are found, characterized by the long-distance behavior of states. Critical disorders are found for Anderson transitions at which the asymptotically dominant sector of augmented space changes for all states at the same disorder. At fixed disorder, critical energies are also found at which the localization properties of states are singular. Under the approximation of single-parameter scaling, this phase diagram reduces to the widely accepted one in one, two, and three dimensions. In two dimensions, in addition to the Anderson transition at infinitesimal disorder, there is a transition between two localized states, characterized by a change in the nature of wave function decay.

© 2006 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.73.045118
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.73.045118
PACS:
71.30.+h, 73.20.Fz, 72.20.Ee, 71.23.An