Electronic dynamics in chains with Ornstein–Uhlenbeck correlated disorder
In this paper, we present a detailed study of the electronic dynamics in systems with correlated disorder generated from the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process (OU). In short, we used numeric methods for solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation. We apply a Taylor’s expansion of the evolution operator in order to solve the differential equation. We calculate some typical tools, such as the participation function [Formula: see text], the mean square displacement [Formula: see text] and the probability of return [Formula: see text]. In our analysis, we show that for low correlations the system behaves as in the standard Anderson model (i.e. all eigenstates are localized). For strong correlations, our results suggest the existence of a quasi-ballistic dynamics.