Quantum transports in two-dimensions with long range hopping

We investigate the effects of disorder and shielding on quantum transports in a two dimensional system with all-to-all long range hopping. In the weak disorder, cooperative shielding manifests itself as perfect conducting channels identical to those of the short range model, as if the long range hopping does not exist. With increasing disorder, the average and fluctuation of conductance are larger than those in the short range model, since the shielding is effectively broken and therefore long range hopping starts to take effect. Over several orders of disorder strength (until similar to 10(4) times of nearest hopping), although the wavefunctions are not fully extended, they are also robustly prevented from being completely localized into a single site. Each wavefunction has several localization centers around the whole sample, thus leading to a fractal dimension remarkably smaller than 2 and also remarkably larger than 0, exhibiting a hybrid feature of localization and delocalization. The size scaling shows that for sufficiently large size and disorder strength, the conductance tends to saturate to a fixed value with the scaling function beta similar to 0, which is also a marginal phase between the typical metal (beta > 0) and insulating phase (beta < 0). The all-to-all coupling expels one isolated but extended state far out of the band, whose transport is extremely robust against disorder due to absence of backscattering. The bond current picture of this isolated state shows a quantum version of short circuit through long hopping.

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We study the impact of disorder and shielding on quantum transports in a two-dimensional system with all-to-all long range hopping. We find that in weak disorder, the cooperative shielding leads to the formation of perfect conducting channels similar to those in the short range model. As the disorder increases, the conductance becomes larger and more fluctuating, indicating the breaking of shielding and the contribution of long range hopping. The wavefunctions are not completely localized and exhibit a hybrid feature of localization and delocalization with a fractal dimension smaller than 2.