Transition between localized and extended states in the hierarchical Anderson model

We present strong numerical evidence for the existence of a localization-delocalization transition in the eigenstates of the 1D Anderson model with long-range hierarchical hopping. Hierarchical models are important because of the well-known mapping between their phases and those of models with short-range hopping in higher dimensions, and also because the renormalization group can be applied exactly without the approximations that generally are required in other models. In the hierarchical Anderson model, we find a finite critical disorder strength W-c where the average inverse participation ratio goes to zero; at small disorder, W 2 dimensions, which was predicted using renormalization group arguments. Our finding should stimulate interest in the hierarchical Anderson model as a simplified and tractable model of the Anderson localization transition, which occurs in finite-dimensional systems with short-range hopping.

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