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 nearest-neighbor 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. $D\rightarrow 0$. 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 $\propto D^{-2}$ when $D$ approaches zero and we numerically verify a proportionality relation between them as $V/P \approx 2.6$.