Band edge localization beyond regular Floquet eigenvalues

DOI10.1007/S00023-020-00911-7MaRDI QIDQ6327467arXivFDO

Authors Albrecht Seelmann, Matthias Täufer

Publication date 18 October 2019

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S00023-020-00911-7

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Schrödinger operator, Schrödinger equation (35J10) PDEs with randomness, stochastic partial differential equations (35R60) Perturbation theory of linear operators (47A55) Random linear operators (47B80) Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

arXiv classification

math-phmath.APmath.MPmath.SP

Abstract: We prove that localization near band edges of multi-dimensional ergodic random Schr"odinger operators with periodic background potential in $L^2(mathbb{R}^d)$ is universal. By this we mean that localization in its strongest dynamical form holds without extra assumptions on the random variables and independently of regularity or degeneracy of the Floquet eigenvalues of the background operator. The main novelty is an initial scale estimate the proof of which avoids Floquet theory altogether and uses instead an interplay between quantitative unique continuation and large deviation estimates. Furthermore, our reasoning is sufficiently flexible to prove this initial scale estimate in a non-ergodic setting, which promises to be an ingredient for understanding band edge localization also in these situations.

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