Localization and multifractal properties of the long-range Kitaev chain in the presence of an Aubry-Andre-Harper modulation

In the presence of quasiperiodic potentials, the celebrated Kitaev chain presents an intriguing phase diagram with ergodic, localized, and multifractal states. In this work, we generalize these results by studying the localization properties of the Aubry-Andre-Harper model in the presence of long-range hopping and superconducting pairing amplitudes. These amplitudes decay with power-law exponents xi and alpha, respectively. To this end, we review and compare a toolbox of global and local characterization methods in order to investigate different types of transitions between ergodic, localized, and multifractal states. We report energy-dependent transitions from ergodic to multifractal states for pairing terms with alpha < 1 and energy-dependent transitions from ergodic to localized states with an intermediate multifractal region for alpha > 1. The size of the intermediate multifractal region depends not only on the value of the superconducting pairing term Delta, but also on the energy band. The transitions are not described by a mobility edge, but instead we report hybridization of bands with different types of localization properties. This leads to coexisting multifractal regimes where fractal dimensions follow different distributions.

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In this study, we generalize the phase diagram of the Kitaev chain model in the presence of quasiperiodic potentials by investigating the localization properties of the Aubry-Andre-Harper model with long-range hopping and superconducting pairing amplitudes. We find transitions between ergodic, localized, and multifractal states, as well as energy-dependent transitions from ergodic to multifractal states for certain parameters. The size of the intermediate multifractal region depends on the superconducting pairing term and energy band, and the transitions are characterized by hybridization of bands with different localization properties.