Statistics of renormalized on-site energies and renormalized hoppings for Anderson localization models in dimensions d=2 and d=3

TL;DR

This paper investigates the statistical properties of renormalized on-site energies and hoppings in Anderson localization models in two and three dimensions, revealing finite energies in the localized phase and multifractal behavior at criticality.

Contribution

It provides a numerical analysis of the real-space renormalization procedure for Anderson models, highlighting the behavior of energies and hoppings, and connecting multifractality with localization properties.

Findings

Renormalized on-site energies remain finite in localized phase and at criticality.

Hopping decay characterized by a droplet exponent related to directed polymers.

Hopping statistics at criticality exhibit multifractality consistent with eigenstate properties.

Abstract

For Anderson localization models, there exists an exact real-space renormalization procedure at fixed energy which preserves the Green functions of the remaining sites [H. Aoki, J. Phys. C13, 3369 (1980)]. Using this procedure for the Anderson tight-binding model in dimensions $d=2,3$, we study numerically the statistical properties of the renormalized on-site energies $\epsilon$ and of the renormalized hoppings $V$ as a function of the linear size $L$. We find that the renormalized on-site energies $\epsilon$ remain finite in the localized phase in $d=2,3$ and at criticality ($d=3$), with a finite density at $\epsilon=0$ and a power-law decay $1/\epsilon^2$ at large $| \epsilon |$. For the renormalized hoppings in the localized phase, we find: ${\rm ln} V_L \simeq -\frac{L}{\xi_{loc}}+L^{\omega}u$, where $\xi_{loc}$ is the localization length and $u$ a random variable of order one. The exponent $\omega$ is the droplet exponent characterizing the strong disorder phase of the directed polymer in a random medium of dimension $1+(d-1)$, with $\omega(d=2)=1/3$ and $\omega(d=3) \simeq 0.24$. At criticality $(d=3)$, the statistics of renormalized hoppings $V$ is multifractal, in direct correspondence with the multifractality of individual eigenstates and of two-point transmissions. In particular, we measure $\rho_{typ}\simeq 1$ for the exponent governing the typical decay $\overline{{\rm ln} V_L} \simeq -\rho_{typ} {\rm ln}L$, in agreement with previous numerical measures of $\alpha_{typ} =d+\rho_{typ} \simeq 4$ for the singularity spectrum $f(\alpha)$ of individual eigenfunctions. We also present numerical results concerning critical surface properties.