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Unconventional delocalization in a family of three-dimensional Lieb lattices

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Danieli,  Carlo
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Max Planck Society;

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Liu, J., Danieli, C., Zhong, J., & Roemer, R. A. (2022). Unconventional delocalization in a family of three-dimensional Lieb lattices. Physical Review B, 106(21): 214204. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.106.214204.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0010-54C2-4
Abstract
Uncorrelated disorder in generalized three-dimensional Lieb models gives rise to the existence of bounded mobility edges, destroys the macroscopic degeneracy of the flat bands, and breaks their compactly localized states. We now introduce a mix of order and disorder such that this degeneracy remains and the compactly localized states are preserved. We obtain the energy-disorder phase diagrams and identify mobility edges. Intriguingly, for large disorder the survival of the compactly localized states induces the existence of delocalized eigenstates close to the original flat-band energies-yielding seemingly divergent mobility edges. For small disorder, however, a change from extended to localized behavior can be found upon decreasing disorder-leading to an unconventional "inverse Anderson" behavior. We show that transfer-matrix methods, computing the localization lengths, and sparse-matrix diagonalization, using spectral gap-ratio energy-level statistics, are in excellent quantitative agreement. The preservation of the compactly localized states even in the presence of this disorder might be useful for envisaged storage applications.