Abstract
Using a three-frequency one-dimensional kicked rotor experimentally
realized with a cold atomic gas, we study the transport properties
at the critical point of the metal-insulator Anderson transition.
We accurately measure the time evolution of an initially localized
wave packet and show that it displays at the critical point a scaling
invariance characteristic of this second-order phase transition.
The shape of the momentum distribution at the critical point is found
to be in excellent agreement with the analytical form deduced from
the self-consistent theory of localization.
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