Properties of Normal Modes in a Modified Disordered Klein–Gordon Lattice: From Disorder to Order

Abstract

We introduce a modified version of the disordered Klein-Gordon lattice model, having two parameters for controlling the disorder strength: D, which determines the range of the coefficients of the on-site potentials, and W , which defines the strength of the nearestneighbor interactions. We fix W = 4 and investigate how the properties of the system’s normal modes change as we approach its ordered version, i.e. D → 0. We show that the probability density distribution of the normal modes’ frequencies takes a ‘U’-shaped profile as D decreases. Furthermore, we use two quantities for estimating the modes’ spatial extent, the so-called localization volume V (which is related to the mode’s second moment) and the mode’s participation number P . We show that both quantities scale as ∝ D−2 when D approaches zero and we numerically verify a proportionality relation between them as V/P ≈ 2.6.