Multi-scale analysis for random quantum systems with interaction (Q354259): Difference between revisions

\textit{P. W. Anderson}'s demonstration of the absence of diffusion in random lattices [Phys. Rev. 109, No. 5, 1492--1505 (1958; \url{doi:10.1103/PhysRev.109.1492})], in the mathematically oriented literature, has been transformed into an active multi-disciplinary research area, centered around spectral problems of random Schrödinger operators, where both spectral and dynamical single-particle localization issues could have been rigorously addressed. The present book focuses mainly on the so-called multi-scale analysis method, that emerged in the single-particle Anderson theory after the seminal paper by \textit{J. Fröhlich} and \textit{T. Spencer} [Commun. Math. Phys. 88, 151--184 (1983; Zbl 0519.60066)]. The main objective of the authors is to generalize the original single-particle model to a fully-fledged theory of many particle quantum systems with pair-wise interactions, being set in in a random environment. Although there are many good arguments to develop a theory for an exemplary (toy model otherwise) \(N=2\) case only, the ultimate goal of this line of research is to construct a theory of infinitely many particles with a positive spatial density in a strongly disordered environment. As clearly stated in the text, the multi-particle theory is still at an early stage of development, with a number of open problems and as yet not fixed possible directions for future research. About half of the book is devoted to a detailed description of multi-scale analysis techniques in a single particle localization theory (part I). Next, in part II, a progress report is offered, based mostly on the authors' own publications, of what could and actually have been done in the framework of the multi-particle localization, by means of the multi-scale techniques. The presentation is carried out for a tight-binding Anderson model on a cubic lattice \(\mathbb{Z}^d\). In the authors' own words ``the book includes the following cutting edge features: an introduction to the state of art single-particle localization theory, an extensive discussion of technical aspects of this theory, a thorough comparison of the multi-particle model with its single-particle counterpart, a self-contained rigorous derivation of both spectral and dynamical localization in the multi-particle tight-binding Anderson model.''