Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2001-06-21
Phys. Stat. Sol. (b), 231 (2002) 19
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
15 pages, LaTex 2e
Scientific paper
We present an analytical study of the Lyapunov exponent for electronic states in a disordered tight-binding ring, with N sites of spacing c, in the presence of a non-hermitian field component h, for weak disorder. This system has been proposed by Hatano and Nelson (HN) as a model for the depinning of flux lines bound to columnar defects in a superconducting cylindrical shell in a transverse magnetic field proportional to h. We calculate the Lyapunov exponent to second order in the disorder in the domain of complex energies in an ordered ring in a non-hermitian field. The result exhibits an important antisymmetry property of the Lyapunov exponent, which reflects the directionality of the non-hermitian localization. By combining the results for the Lyapunov exponent with a previous calculation of the complex eigenvalues for weak disorder, we show that the localization length of the complex eigenenergy states is generally larger than the circumference (Nc) of the ring. This supports the initial suggestion of HN that these eigenstates are delocalized. Our perturbative treatment of the disorder when applied for an open chain embedded in an infinite non-disordered chain recovers the Thouless formula for the zero-field localization length.
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