Here is an interesting plot. This shows something we could call the localization length, as a function of disorder. It is calculated with zero sloping potential but with a site disorder as outlined above. The horizontal access is disorder. The quantity on the vertical access is the large-time asymptotic value of the width of the wave-function. Like, as a function of time, the wave-function gets wider for a while but then it stops getting wider and settles on a particular width, hence we can call that a localization length. (For zero disorder, that would be infinite because it never stops getting wider not matter how long you go int time.)
I am not sure actually how this is defined since a wave-function width less than 1 is a little puzzling. Maybe there is a normalization issue or something? Also, another point is probably to get really accurate values at low disorder one might need to let the wave function evolve for a longer time. I wonder if there is a threshold level of disorder at which this quantity changes from being infinite (no localization) to finite?
It seems that (according to simTest40_exp.gif, which shows the expectation value vs time) at the levels of disorder I've provided there is almost no difference in the speed that the wave moves, regardless of disorder level. For that matter, it appears that it almost immediately becomes a linear movement, and does not (as I had first assumed) accelerate. Does anybody have any idea as to what slope values I might test (the current slope being I/2)?
Here is the link to the drive: Time Evolution Plots
*EDIT: I've done more simulations, now using a slope of I/2000 and I/200 instead of I/2. They can be found in moving_I/200 and moving_I/2000 respectively. I've also added more plots to the disorder folder (simTest31...). The new plots are also now in both a gif form and an mp4 form (so you can pause, rewind, etc).
*EDIT: I've done more simulations, now using a slope of I/2000 and I/200 instead of I/2. They can be found in moving_I/200 and moving_I/2000 respectively. I've also added more plots to the disorder folder (simTest31...). The new plots are also now in both a gif form and an mp4 form (so you can pause, rewind, etc).
To answer your question about the "width" being less than 1: that puzzled me for a bit as well, but with some quick thinking about statistics it makes sense. Just realize that if the electron was completely localized to only one well, then the standard deviation would be zero (i.e. wave localized at well 3, all else 0; = 3, = 9, - ^2 = 0) so a number less than one just means very close to complete localization to one well.
ReplyDeleteIt might be interesting to get some statistics for this by running it like 10 times or so for the same disorder and see how much the localization length varies statistically.
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