Physics – Condensed Matter – Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Scientific paper
2001-01-05
Physics
Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
4 pages with 2 embedded postscript figures
Scientific paper
Numerical studies of amorphous silicon in harmonic approximation show that the highest 3.5% of vibrational normal modes are localized. As vibrational frequency increases through the boundary separating localized from delocalized modes, near omega_c=70meV, (the "mobility edge") there is a localization-delocalization (LD) transition, similar to a second-order thermodynamic phase transition. By a numerical study on a system with 4096 atoms, we are able to see exponential decay lengths of exact vibrational eigenstates, and test whether or not these diverge at omega_c. Results are consistent with a localization length xi which diverges above omega_c as (omega-omega_c)^{-p} where the exponent is p = 1.3 +/- 0.5. Below the mobility edge we find no evidence for a diverging correlation length. Such an asymmetry would contradict scaling ideas, and we suppose it is a finite-size artifact. If the scaling regime is narrower than our 1 meV resolution, then it cannot be seen directly on our finite system.
Allen Philip B.
Feldman Joseph L.
Garber William
Tangerman Folkert M.
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