Uniform Anderson Localization in One-Dimensional Floquet Maps

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that in a one-dimensional Floquet quantum map with disorder, all eigenstates are exponentially localized with a universal localization length that depends on the hopping parameter, revealing a form of Anderson localization.

Contribution

The authors provide an exact theory linking the localization length to the hopping parameter in a disordered Floquet system, showing universal localization behavior.

Findings

Eigenstates are exponentially localized with a universal localization length.

Localization length depends on the hopping parameter as $L_{loc} = 1/| abla heta|$.

Localization can be tuned from zero to infinity by adjusting the hopping $ heta$.

Abstract

We study Anderson localization in a discrete-time quantum map dynamics in one dimension with nearest-neighbor hopping strength $\theta$ and quasienergies located on the unit circle. We demonstrate that strong disorder in a local phase field yields a uniform spectrum gaplessly occupying the entire unit circle. The resulting eigenstates are exponentially localized. Remarkably this Anderson localization is universal as all eigenstates have one and the same localization length $L_{loc}$. We present an exact theory for the calculation of the localization length as a function of the hopping, $1/L_\text{loc}=\left|\ln\left(|\sin(\theta)|\right)\right|$, that is tunable between zero and infinity by variation of the hopping $\theta$.