Quantum diffusion for the Anderson model in the scaling limit (Q2384994): Difference between revisions

Let \(\psi_t\) be the solution of the random Schrödinger equation on \(\mathbb Z^d\), \(d\geq 3\), with initial data \(\psi_0\) and with i.i.d.~random potential. That is the solution of the equation \[ i \partial_t \psi_t(x)=(-{1 \over 2} \Delta + \lambda V_\omega ) \psi_t(x), \qquad \psi_t\in \ell^2(\mathbb Z^d), t\in \mathbb R, \] where \(\Delta\) is a discrete Laplace operator, \(V_\omega = \sum_{\alpha \in \mathbb Z^d} v_\alpha \delta_{x,\alpha }\), and \(\{v_\alpha ,\alpha \in \mathbb Z^d\}\) is a collection of i.i.d.~random variables. The paper considers the scaling limit of this equation in the limit \(\lambda \to 0\), where the time and space variables scale as \(t\sim \lambda^{-2-\kappa }\) and \(x\sim \lambda^{-2-\kappa }\) for some \(\kappa \in (0,\kappa_0(d))\). It is shown, under some moment assumptions on \(v_\alpha \), that the expectation of the Wigner distribution of \(\psi_t\) converges weakly to a solution of a heat equation in the space variable \(x\) for arbitrary \(L^2\) initial data. The diffusion coefficient of this equation is uniquely determined by the kinetic energy associated to the momentum \(v\). The paper is an extension to the lattice case of the previous works of the same authors: [\textit{L. Erdős}, \textit{M. Salmhofer} and \textit{H. Yau}, Acta Math. 200, No. 2, 211--277 (2008; Zbl 1155.82015) and Commun. Math. Phys. 271, No. 1, 1--53 (2007; Zbl 1205.82123)]. This extension is not straight-forward, since in the discrete case the level surfaces of the dispersion relation are not convex, which makes the estimates of several Feynman graphs more involved. On the other hand, the finite momentum space allows to avoid certain difficulties due to the ultraviolet regime in the continuous space model. These were solved in the above cited references by artificial large momentum cut-offs.