Moment analysis for localization in random Schrödinger operators (Q818634)

This work provides an approach to the analysis of the phenomenon known as Anderson localization [Phys. Rev. 109, 1492--1505 (1958)] which refers to the potentially drastic effect of the disorder on the dynamical and spectral properties of the perturbed operator. The basic tools to do that are the moments of fractional order of the Green function which are so selected because the moments of order larger than the unity diverge in localization regimes. Following a first section (apart from the introduction of course) on the resolvent bounds for eigenfunction correlators and dynamical localization, the authors comments at length on the finiteness of the fractional moments as a result of the resonance-diffusing effects of the disorder, and then they propose some finite-volume criteria to obtain exponential decay of the bulk Green-function. In the last chapter they apply these results to some regimes of interest including the well known large disorder and Lifshitz regimes. The proofs of the main theorems are postponed in the appendix, which deserves reading for a good understanding of the paper.