Internal Lifshits tails for random magnetic Schrödinger operators (Q2372178)

Loosely speaking, Lifshits tails refer to the feature (discovered by this author) that, at the bottom of the spectrum of a random Schrödinger operator, the density of states decays exponentially fast. This phenomenon is particularly relevant to the quantum Hall effect. Here one studies the Lifshits tails for a random magnetic Schrödinger operator in which the potential is the sum of two terms. A potential \(V\) which is periodic, and a potential \(w_{ii}(x-\gamma)\) where the \(w_{ii}\)'s are i.i.d. bounded random variables. The paper gives exact conditions under which there exists a Lifshits tail.