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Solid State Theory Seminar: Dipole Excitations in 2D insulators. Quantum Levy flights

2024/5/8
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This talk is devoted to quantum propagation of dipole excitations in two dimensions in the presence of disorder. This problem differs from the conventional Anderson localization due to existence of long range hops. We found that the critical wave functions of the dipoles always exist which manifest themselves by a scale independent diffusion constant. If the system is T-invariant the states are critical for all values of the parameters. Otherwise, there can be a “normal metal - perfect metal" transition between this “ordinary" diffusion and the Levy-flights (the diffusion constant logarithmically increasing with the scale). These results follow from the two-loop analysis of the modified non-linear supermatrix