What is Anderson Localization?

Let's break statistical mechanics!

Hi everyone!

Jonathon Riddell here. Today we will look at a counter example to the emergence of statistical mechanics in a quantum setting. The presentation doesn't feature a lot of math and is a sort of first attempt of mine to present more advanced concepts more intuitively than I have in the past.

Anderson's paper: https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.109.1492 Aubry André Model: Analyticity breaking and Anderson localization in incommensurate lattices, Ann. Israel Phys. Soc, 1980/12

Experimental papers: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature07000 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature05623 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature07071 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/6250/842

Here is a link to my publication history: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=V2UZXZMAAAAJ&hl=en ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvD0zbF7z5U