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arxiv: cond-mat/9910462 · v1 · submitted 1999-10-27 · ❄️ cond-mat.dis-nn

Time evolution of wave-packets in quasi-1D disordered media

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keywords anomalouspacketscalingwidthbandbandwidthcorrectionsdisordered
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We have investigated numerically the quantum evolution of a wave-packet in a quenched disordered medium described by a tight-binding Hamiltonian with long-range hopping (band random matrix approach). We have obtained clean data for the scaling properties in time and in the bandwidth b of the packet width and its fluctuations with respect to disorder realizations. We confirm that the fluctuations of the packet width in the steady-state show an anomalous scaling and we give a new estimate of the anomalous scaling exponent. This anomalous behaviour is related to the presence of non-Gaussian tails in the distribution of the packet width. Finally, we have analysed the steady state probability profile and we have found finite band corrections of order 1/b with respect to the theoretical formula derived by Zhirov in the limit of infinite bandwidth. In a neighbourhood of the origin, however, the corrections are $O(1/\sqrt{b})$.

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