Ballistic behavior for random Schrödinger operators on the Bethe strip (Q656197)

Summary: The Bethe strip of width \(m\) is the Cartesian product \(\mathbb B\times\{1,\ldots,m\}\), where \(\mathbb B\) is the Bethe lattice (Cayley tree). We consider Anderson-like Hamiltonians \(H_{\lambda}=\frac{1}{2} \Delta \otimes 1 + {1 \otimes A}+\lambda \mathcal{V}\) on a Bethe strip with connectivity \(K \geq 2\), where \(A\) is an \(m\times m\) symmetric matrix, \(\mathcal{V}\) is a random matrix potential, and \(\lambda\) is the disorder parameter. Under certain conditions on \(A\) and \(K\), for which we previously proved the existence of an absolutely continuous spectrum for small \(\lambda\), we now obtain ballistic behavior for the spreading of wave packets evolving under \(H_{\lambda}\) for small \(\lambda\).