Ariel Amir has recently got his PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. He is moving to Boston in July 2011 to join Harvard as a junior fellow.

On strong disorder renormalization

Last time I talked about the fate of Anderson localization when the disorder fluctuates in time. This time I will talk about another localization problem, of  a particular class of random matrices. The mathematical model I will describe in the following can be used to describe various physical problems: the localization of phonons in a [...]

285. Dephasing and diffusion of quantum particles

This is a guest post by Ariel Amir from the Weizmann Institute of Science. Dmitry. I was kindly asked by Dmitry to describe a recent work, where diffusion emerges from the decoherence in a noisy environment. This work was done together with Y. Lahini (an experimentalist) and H. Perets (an astrophysicist), and can be found [...]