Approach to the extended states conjecture

DOI10.1007/S10955-013-0879-5MaRDI QIDQ2440351zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Constanze Liaw

Publication date 18 March 2014

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.2843

zbMATH Keywords

Anderson localizationdiscrete random Schrödinger operatorextended states conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

Abstract: We develop a new approach for the Anderson localization problem. The implementation of this method yields strong numerical evidence leading to a (surprising to many) conjecture: The two dimensional discrete random Schroedinger operator with small disorder allows states that are dynamically delocalized with positive probability. This approach is based on a recent result by Abakumov-Liaw-Poltoratski which is rooted in the study of spectral behavior under rank-one perturbations, and states that every non-zero vector is almost surely cyclic for the singular part of the operator. The numerical work presented is rather simplistic compared to other numerical approaches in the field. Further, this method eliminates effects due to boundary conditions. While we carried out the numerical experiment almost exclusively in the case of the two dimensional discrete random Schroedinger operator, we include the setup for the general class of Anderson models called Anderson-type Hamiltonians. We track the location of the energy when a wave packet initially located at the origin is evolved according to the discrete random Schroedinger operator. This method does not provide new insight on the energy regimes for which diffusion occurs.

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