Imperfectly grown periodic medium: absence of localized states (Q2515798)

The author considers the Schrödinger operator in \(l^2(\mathbb{Z}^d)\) given as \[ h_v=\Delta+v,\tag{1} \] where \(\Delta\) is the lattice Laplacian \[ (\Delta y)(x)=\sum_{\|z\|_1=1}y(x+z),\quad x\in\mathbb{Z}^d, \] and \(v\) is the operator of multiplication by the function \[ v(x)=\sum_{n=0}^\infty u_n(x).\tag{2} \] Here \(u_n(\cdot)\) is a \((T_n,\dots,T_n)\)-periodic function on \(\mathbb{Z}^d\), where the numbers \(T_n\in\mathbb{N}\) satisfy \(T_n/T_{n-1}\in\mathbb{N}\setminus\{1\}\) for \(n=1,2,\dots\). Moreover, the function \(u_n(\cdot)\), \(n=1,2,\dots\), vanishes everywhere on its elementary cell \[ Q_n=\big\{x\in\mathbb{Z}^d,\;-T_n/2<x_i<T_n/2,\;i=1,\dots,d\big\}, \] except for a subset \(X_n\subseteq Q_n\), which consists of \(m_n\) points selected at random so that all such subsets of \(Q_n\) are equiprobable. The values of \(u_n(\cdot)\) at those points are chosen arbitrarily. The main result (Theorem 1) reads as follows: If \[ \sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{m_{n+1}W_n}{T_{n+1}}<\infty, \] where \(W_n=T_n^{2d-1}\ln^2 T_n\), then, with probability \(1\), the operators (1), (2) have no eigenvalues. Several modifications of the presented model are discussed in the final section.