Global Delocalization Transition in the de Moura-Lyra Model

Abstract

The possibility of having a delocalization transition in the 1D de Moura-Lyra class of models (having a power-spectrum $\propto q^{-\alpha })$ has been the object of a long standing discussion in the literature, filled with ambiguities. In this letter, we report the first numerical evidences that such a transition happens at $\alpha =1$, where the localization length (measured from the scaling of the conductance) is shown to diverge as $(1-\alpha {)}^{-1}$. The persistent finite-size scaling of the data is shown to be caused by a very slow convergence of the nearest-neighbor correlator to its infinite-size limit, and controlled by the choice of a proper scaling parameter. This last conclusion leads to the re-interpretation of the localization in these models to be caused by an effective Anderson uncorrelated model at small length-scales. Finally, the numerical results are confirmed by analytical perturbative calculations which are built on previous work.

arXiv comment6 pages, 4 figures Submitted to Physical Review B on the 25th of March 2019

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