Localization landscape for Dirac fermions

@article{Lemut2019LocalizationLF,
  title={Localization landscape for Dirac fermions},
  author={G. Lemut and Michał Jan Pacholski and Omrie Ovdat and Aur{\'e}lien Grabsch and Jakub Tworzydło and C. W. J. Beenakker},
  journal={Physical Review B},
  year={2019}
}
In the theory of Anderson localization, a landscape function predicts where wave functions localize in a disordered medium, without requiring the solution of an eigenvalue problem. It is known how to construct the localization landscape for the scalar wave equation in a random potential, or equivalently for the Schrodinger equation of spinless electrons. Here we generalize the concept to the Dirac equation, which includes the effects of spin-orbit coupling and allows to study quantum… 
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