Ly : localized modes in linear chain and localization effects

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The discussion revolves around the concepts of localized modes, localization effects, and localization length in the context of a linear monoatomic chain, particularly in the presence of disorder or impurities. Participants seek clarification on these concepts and their implications for understanding eigenvectors and eigenfrequencies.

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant requests clarification on the definitions of "localized modes," "localization effects," and "localization length," expressing difficulty in understanding the provided definitions.
  • Another participant suggests that localization effects may arise from disorder or impurities in the chain, which could be detectable in the spectrum of normal modes.
  • A participant mentions the need for an explanation of an equation related to eigenvectors and localization length, indicating that they are working on a computational problem involving these concepts.
  • There is a reference to "Anderson localization," with one participant expressing a desire to find more information about the relevant equations.
  • One participant requests more context or a complete paragraph to better understand the initial question, indicating a lack of clarity in the original post.
  • Another participant offers to check a textbook for additional information that might help answer the questions posed.

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Participants generally express confusion and seek clarification on the concepts discussed, indicating that there is no consensus on the understanding of localized modes and related effects. Multiple viewpoints and questions remain unresolved.

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urgently need help: localized modes in linear chain and localization effects

Hello everyone, it is great place you have here, hope I can learn a lot from you

I am doing some readings and there are couple of concepts that I havent
been familiar with and if you spend a little time to help me with I would
be really grateful:

Can you please give some explanation aobut the concepts of "localised
modes", "localisation effects" and "localisation length" for a linear (atonmic) chain.

The definition I am given is "For the normalised eigenvectors q(wr) ‘localised’ modes may be thought of as those for which only a contiguous subset of the
components of q(wr) are significantly different from zero" which I find
hard to understand.

Can you please explain abit more about localisation effect and how we would get an estimate of the "localisation length".


If it is too much trouble for you please point me to a source of information

Any help greatly appreciated


Thanks
 
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is the localisation effect is when there's disorder or impurity in the chain and it will be detectable in the the spectrum of normal mode somehow?

and what is the localisation length :(

pplease help, just take you a minute
 
can you please tell me what does this equation imply?
 

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why no body is helping :((
pleasezzzzz
 
becasue no one understand what is your question...can you post the whole paragraph instead of one sentence, or at least explain a little bit what is q, w and r means...I took a classical dynamics course last year and it did cover using matrix to solve this kind of problem... but i don't think you gave me enough information to help you...
 
that's all i am given. I don't know it myself, this is a computing problem that i need to understand to implement computational to calculate the localisation length.

basically we have a linear monoatomic chain. and we have a disorder like that, one atom with a different mass. the it is said

For the normalised eigenvectors q(wr) ‘localised’ modes may be thought of as those for which only a contiguous subset of the components of q(wr) are significantly different from zero

wr is just the eigen frequency, q is the coressponding eigen vector

in the equation qj(wr) is the j component of the eigen vector (i believe) then gamma is the localisation length. jd i don't know

we can see an exponential decay around the eigen vector, which indicate the localisation length is the decay constant. but what exactly this equation means i don't understand.

I heard that this is "anderson localisation" but i haven't found this equation anywhere else to find out more

please help
 
what textbook are you using... maybe i can rush to the library and take a look... hopefully can give u an answer by tomorrow
 

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