Multifractal analysis of the metal-insulator transition in anisotropic systems
Abstract
We study the Anderson model of localization with anisotropic hopping in three dimensions for weakly coupled chains and weakly coupled planes. The eigenstates of the Hamiltonian, as computed by Lanczos diagonalization for systems of sizes up to 483, show multifractal behavior at the metal-insulator transition even for strong anisotropy. The critical disorder strength Wc determined from the system size dependence of the singularity spectra is in a reasonable agreement with a recent study using transfer matrix methods. But the respective spectrum at Wc deviates from the ``characteristic spectrum'' determined for the isotropic system. This indicates a quantitative difference of the multifractal properties of states of the anisotropic as compared to the isotropic system. Further, we calculate the Kubo conductivity for given anisotropies by exact diagonalization. Already for small system sizes of only 123 sites we observe a rapidly decreasing conductivity in the directions with reduced hopping if the coupling becomes weaker.
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