Multifractal analysis of the metal-insulator transition in the three-dimensional Anderson model. II. Symmetry relation under ensemble averaging

Abstract

We study the multifractal analysis (MFA) of electronic wave functions at the localization-delocalization transition in the three-dimensional Anderson model for very large system sizes up to ${240}^{3}$. The singularity spectrum $f(\ensuremath{\alpha})$ is numerically obtained using the ensemble average of the scaling law for the generalized inverse participation ratios ${P}_{q}$, employing box-size and system-size scaling. The validity of a recently reported symmetry law [Mirlin et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 046803 (2006)] for the multifractal spectrum is carefully analyzed at the metal-insulator transition. The results are compared to those obtained using different approaches, in particular the typical average of the scaling law. System-size scaling with ensemble average appears as the most adequate method to carry out the numerical MFA.