Analytical Theory for Anomalous Diffusion in the Anderson Model with Heavy Tails

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10868v1
• Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:44:06 GMT
• Title: Analytical Theory for Anomalous Diffusion in the Anderson Model with Heavy Tails
• Abstract summary: We develop an analytical theory of anomalous transport in a noninteracting Anderson model with heavy-tailed hopping amplitudes.<n>The distribution of hopping amplitudes gives rise to an extended intermediate-time regime with a subdiffusive effective exponent.<n>Our results demonstrate that rare hopping processes alone provide a microscopic single-particle mechanism for robust transport anomalies.
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• Abstract: We develop an analytical theory of anomalous transport in a noninteracting Anderson model with heavy-tailed hopping amplitudes. The broad distribution of hopping amplitudes gives rise to an extended intermediate-time regime with a subdiffusive effective exponent, despite the absence of interactions or genuine many-body effects. By solving the transport equations analytically, we derive the time dependence of the mean-square displacement and identify a continuous crossover from an intermediate anomalous regime to asymptotically diffusive transport. As the localization transition is approached, the spatial extent of the subdiffusive window diverges parametrically, while the crossover to conventional diffusion remains finite in units of $Γ_0^{-1}$. This produces an increasingly broad anomalous transport regime in space that can closely resemble Griffiths-type transport observed near the many-body localization transition. Our results demonstrate that rare hopping processes alone provide a microscopic single-particle mechanism for robust transport anomalies, establishing an analytical benchmark for distinguishing interaction-induced effects from disorder-driven dynamics.

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