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Electronic transport in a randomly amplifying and absorbing chain
We study localization properties of a one-dimensional disordered system
characterized by a random non-hermitean hamiltonian where both the randomness
and the non-hermiticity arises in the local site-potential; its real part being
ordered (fixed), and a random imaginary part implying the presence of either a
random absorption or amplification at each site. The transmittance (forward
scattering) decays exponentially in either case. In contrast to the disorder in
the real part of the potential (Anderson localization), the transmittance with
the disordered imaginary part may decay slower than that in the case of ordered
imaginary part.Comment: 7 LaTex pages plus 2 PS figures; e-mail: [email protected]
Phase Distribution in a Disordered Chain and the Emergence of a Two-parameter Scaling in the Quasi-ballistic to the Mildly Localized Regime
We study the phase distribution of the complex reflection coefficient in
different configurations as a disordered 1D system evolves in length, and its
effect on the distribution of the 4-probe resistance . The stationary () phase distribution is almost always strongly non-uniform and is in
general double-peaked with their separation decaying algebraically with growing
disorder strength to finally give rise to a single narrow peak at infinitely
strong disorder. Further in the length regime where the phase distribution
still evolves with length (i.e., in the quasi-ballistic to the mildly localized
regime), the phase distribution affects the distribution of the resistance in
such a way as to make the mean and the variance of diverge
independently with length with different exponents. As , these
two exponents become identical (unity). Obviously, these facts imply two
relevant parameters for scaling in the quasi-ballistic to the mildly localized
regime finally crossing over to one-parameter scaling in the strongly localized
regime.Comment: 12 LaTeX pages plus 3 EPS figure
Does hybrid density functional theory predict a non-magnetic ground state for delta-Plutonium?
Hybrid density functionals, which replaces a fraction of density functional
theory (DFT) exchange with exact Hartree-Fock (HF) exchange, have been used to
study the structural, magnetic, and electronic properties of delta-Plutonium.
The fractions of exact Hartree-Fock exchange used were 25%, 40%, and 55%.
Compared to the pure PBE functional, the lattice constants expanded with
respect to the experimental value when the PBE-HF hybrid functionals were
applied. A non-magnetic ground state was realized for 55% HF contribution;
otherwise the ground state was anti-ferromagnetic. The 5f electrons tend to
exhibit slight delocalization or itinerancy for the pure PBE functional and
well-defined localization for the hybrid functionals, with the degree of 5f
electron localization increasing with the amount of HF exchange. Overall, the
performance of the hybrid density functionals do not seem superior to pure
density functionals for delta-Plutonium.Comment: 24 pages (double spaced), 5 figures, 1 tabl
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