Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1997-10-03
Nucl.Phys. B552 (1999) 599-623
Physics
Condensed Matter
36 pages, 5 figures (.ps), LaTex
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00246-1
Recent analytical and numerical work have shown that the spectrum of the random non-hermitean Hamiltonian on a ring which models the physics of vortex line pinning in superconductors is one dimensional. In the maximally non-hermitean limit, we give a simple "one-line" proof of this feature. We then study the spectral curves for various distributions of the random site energies. We find that a critical transition occurs when the average of the logarithm of the random site energy squared vanishes. For a large class of probability distributions of the site energies, we find that as the randomness increases the energy at which the localization-delocalization transition occurs increases, reaches a maximum, and then decreases. The Cauchy distribution studied previously in the literature does not have this generic behavior. We determine the critical value of the randomness at which "wings" first appear in the energy spectrum. For distributions, such as Cauchy, with infinitely long tails, we show that this critical value is infinitesimally above zero. We determine the density of eigenvalues on the wings for any probability distribution. We show that the localization length on the wings diverges linearly as the energy approaches the energy at which the localization-delocalization transition occurs. These results are all obtained in the maximally non-hermitean limit but for a generic class of probability distributions of the random site energies.
Feinberg Joshua
Zee Anthony
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