An eigensystem approach to Anderson localization

DOI10.1016/J.JFA.2016.09.008MaRDI QIDQ329626zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alexander Elgart, Abel Klein

Publication date 21 October 2016

Published in Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.08521

zbMATH Keywords

Anderson localizationAnderson modelHall's marriage theoremlevel spacingmultiscale analysisrandom Schrödinger operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random linear operators (47B80) Random operators and equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) (60H25) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

Abstract: We introduce a new approach for proving localization (pure point spectrum with exponentially decaying eigenfunctions, dynamical localization) for the Anderson model at high disorder. In contrast to the usual strategy, we do not study finite volume Green's functions. Instead, we perform a multiscale analysis based on finite volume eigensystems (eigenvalues and eigenfunctions). Information about eigensystems at a given scale is used to derive information about eigensystems at larger scales. This eigensystem multiscale analysis treats all energies of the finite volume operator at the same time, establishing level spacing and localization of eigenfunctions in a fixed box with high probability. A new feature is the labeling of the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions by the sites of the box.

Review text

The Anderson model is the prototype for the study of localization properties of quantum states of single electrons in disordered solids. The Anderson localization is that high disorder leads to localization of electron states. The usual approach to the Anderson localization is that such information is encoded in the decay properties of the corresponding Green's function. In the paper, the authors provide a new approach which is a mathematically rigorous implementation of a multiscale analysis for the Anderson model at high disorder based on finite volume eigensystems. The eigensystem at a given scale is used to derive information about eigensystems at larger scales. The main result of the paper yields Anderson localization (pure point spectrum with exponentially decaying eigenfunctions, dynamical localization) for a random Schrödinger operator. Also, the connection between the eigensystem multiscale analysis and the Green's functions multiscale analysis is investigated.

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