Nonlinear delocalization on disordered Stark ladder

I. GARCÍA-MATA; D.L. SHEPELYANSKY

EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL B

SPRINGER

Año: 2009 vol. 71 p. 121 - 124

We study effects of weak nonlinearity on localization of waves in disordered Stark ladder corresponding to propagation in presence of disorder and a static field. Our numerical results show that nonlinearity leads to delocalization with subdiffusive spreading along the ladder. The exponent of spreading remains close to its value in absence of the static field. The delocalization implies the existence of statistical entanglement between far away parts of the spreading wave packet indicating importance of long-range effects.