Author:
Wang Si-Si,Li Kangkang,Dai Yi-Ming,Wang Hui-Hui,Zhang Yi-Cai,Zhang Yan-Yang
Abstract
AbstractWe investigate the effects of disorder and shielding on quantum transports in a two dimensional system with all-to-all long range hopping. In the weak disorder, cooperative shielding manifests itself as perfect conducting channels identical to those of the short range model, as if the long range hopping does not exist. With increasing disorder, the average and fluctuation of conductance are larger than those in the short range model, since the shielding is effectively broken and therefore long range hopping starts to take effect. Over several orders of disorder strength (until$$\sim 10^4$$∼104times of nearest hopping), although the wavefunctions are not fully extended, they are also robustly prevented from being completely localized into a single site. Each wavefunction has several localization centers around the whole sample, thus leading to a fractal dimension remarkably smaller than 2 and also remarkably larger than 0, exhibiting a hybrid feature of localization and delocalization. The size scaling shows that for sufficiently large size and disorder strength, the conductance tends to saturate to a fixed value with the scaling function$$\beta \sim 0$$β∼0, which is also a marginal phase between the typical metal ($$\beta >0$$β>0) and insulating phase ($$\beta <0$$β<0). The all-to-all coupling expels one isolated but extended state far out of the band, whose transport is extremely robust against disorder due to absence of backscattering. The bond current picture of this isolated state shows a quantum version of short circuit through long hopping.
Funder
Starting Research Fund from Guangzhou University
Joint Fund with Guangzhou Municipality
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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