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Each state in a one-dimensional disordered system has two localization lengths when the Hilbert space is constrained
In disordered systems, the amplitudes of the localized states will decrease
exponentially away from their centers and the localization lengths are
characterizing such decreasing. In this article, we find a model in which each
eigenstate is decreasing at two distinct rates. The model is a one-dimensional
disordered system with a constrained Hilbert space: all eigenstates
s should be orthogonal to a state , , where is a given exponentially localized
state. Although the dimension of the Hilbert space is only reduced by , the
amplitude of each state will decrease at one rate near its center and at
another rate in the rest region, as shown in Fig. \ref{fig1}. Depending on , it is also possible that all states are changed from localized
states to extended states. In such a case, the level spacing distribution is
different from that of the three well-known ensembles of the random matrices.
This indicates that a new ensemble of random matrices exists in this model.
Finally we discuss the physics behind such phenomena and propose an experiment
to observe them
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