MULTIFRACTAL WAVE-FUNCTIONS AT THE ANDERSON TRANSITION

被引:226
作者
SCHREIBER, M
GRUSSBACH, H
机构
[1] Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 6500 Mainz
关键词
DIMENSIONAL DISORDERED-SYSTEMS; FRACTAL DIMENSIONALITY; EXTENDED STATES; MAGNETIC-FIELD; MOBILITY EDGE; EXPONENTS; WAVEFUNCTIONS; LOCALIZATION; CHARACTER; NUMBER;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.67.607
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
Electronic wave functions in disordered systems are studied within the Anderson model of localization. At the critical disorder in 3D we diagonalize very large (103 823 x 103 823) secular matrices by means of the Lanczos algorithm. On all length scales the obtained strong spatial fluctuations of the amplitude of the eigenstates display a multifractal character, reflected in the set of generalized fractal dimensions and the singularity spectrum of the fractal measure. An analysis of 1 D systems shows multifractality too, in contrast to previous claims.
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