Detecting localized eigenstates of linear operators

DOI10.1007/S40687-018-0152-2MaRDI QIDQ2319765zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stefan Steinerberger, Jianfeng Lu

Publication date 20 August 2019

Published in Research in the Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.03364

zbMATH Keywords

Anderson localizationeigenvectorslocalizationpower iterationrandomized numerical linear algebrastochastic differential equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Schrödinger operator, Schrödinger equation (35J10) Asymptotic distributions of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P20) Eigenvalue problems for linear operators (47A75) Random operators and equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) (60H25) Numerical computation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices (65F15) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

Abstract: We describe a way of detecting the location of localized eigenvectors of a linear system $Ax=lambdax$ for eigenvalues $lambda$ with $|lambda|$ comparatively large. We define the family of functions $f_{alpha}:left\mathrm{1.2.}dots,nightightarrowmathbb{R}_{}$ ${\displaystyle }$ f_{alpha}(k) = log left( | A^{alpha} e_k |_{ell^2} ight),${\displaystyle }$ where $alphageq0$ is a parameter and $e_k=(0,0,dots,0,1,0,dots,0)$ is the $k-$th standard basis vector. We prove that eigenvectors associated to eigenvalues with large absolute value localize around local maxima of $f_{alpha}$: the metastable states in the power iteration method (slowing down its convergence) can be used to predict localization. We present a fast randomized algorithm and discuss different examples: a random band matrix, discretizations of the local operator $-Delta+V$ and the nonlocal operator $(-Delta{)}^{3/4}+V$.

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