Eur. Phys. J. B 55, 49-56 (2007)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2007-00036-4

Localization-delocalization transition in chains with long-range correlated disorder

Physics Department, Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, 34210 Davutpaşa, Turkey

Corresponding author: ^a tkaya@yildiz.edu.tr

Received: 11 August 2006
Revised: 9 January 2007
Published online: 7 February 2007

Abstract

We investigated numerically localization properties of electron eigenstates in a chain with long-range correlated diagonal disorder. A tight-binding one-dimensional model with on-site energies exhibiting long-range correlated disorder (LCD) was used with various disorder strength W. LCD was defined so that it gave a power-law spectral density of the form S(k)αk^-p, where p determines the roughness of the potential landscape. Numerical results on the correlation length ξ of eigenstates shows the existence of the localization-delocalization transition at p=2. It is found that the critical values for disorder strength W_c and also the critical exponent ν for localization length change with the values of p.