Localization-delocalization transition in discrete-time quantum walks with long-range correlated disorder.

Mendes, C V C; Almeida, G M A; Lyra, M L; de Moura, F A B F · Phys Rev E · 2019

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We study the effects of spatially long-range correlated phase disorder on the Hadamard quantum walk on a line. The shift operator is built to exhibit an intrinsic disorder distribution featuring long-range correlations. To impose such, we resort to fractional Brownian motion with power-law spectrum 1/k^{2α} with α≥0 being the exponent that controls the degree of correlations. We discuss the scaling behavior of the walker's wave packet and report a localization-delocalization transition controlled by α. We unveil two intermediate dynamical regimes between exponential localization and full delocalization.