Perturbations of continuum random Schrödinger operators with applications to Anderson orthogonality and the spectral shift function

DOI10.4171/JST/267MaRDI QIDQ2335834zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Adrian Dietlein, Martin Gebert, Peter Müller

Publication date 15 November 2019

Published in Journal of Spectral Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.02956

Anderson orthogonality random Schrödinger operators spectral shift function

Random linear operators (47B80) Random operators and equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) (60H25) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

Abstract: We study effects of a bounded and compactly supported perturbation on multi-dimensional continuum random Schr"odinger operators in the region of complete localisation. Our main emphasis is on Anderson orthogonality for random Schr"odinger operators. Among others, we prove that Anderson orthogonality does occur for Fermi energies in the region of complete localisation with a non-zero probability. This partially confirms recent non-rigorous findings [V. Khemani et al., Nature Phys. 11, 560-565 (2015)]. The spectral shift function plays an important role in our analysis of Anderson orthogonality. We identify it with the index of the corresponding pair of spectral projections and explore the consequences thereof. All our results rely on the main technical estimate of this paper which guarantees separate exponential decay of the disorder-averaged Schatten

p

-norm of

c h i_{a} (f (H) - f (H^{a u})) c h i_{b}

in

a

and

b

. Here,

H^{a u}

is a perturbation of the random Schr"odinger operator

H

,

c h i_{a}

is the multiplication operator corresponding to the indicator function of a unit cube centred about

a i n m a t h b b R^{d}

, and

f

is in a suitable class of functions of bounded variation with distributional derivative supported in the region of complete localisation for

H

.

Review text

The paper under review considers the following continuum alloy-type random Schrödinger operator \[ \omega\mapsto H_{\omega} := H_0 + \lambda\sum_{k\in {\mathbb Z}^d}\omega_ku_k\,,\quad \lambda \geq 0, \] in \(L^2({\mathbb R}^d)\) in the \textit{region of complete localization} [\textit{F. Germinet} and \textit{A. Klein}, J. Stat. Phys. 122, No. 1, 73--94 (2006; Zbl 1127.82031)], to study effects of its perturbation \(H_{\omega}^{\tau} : = H_{\omega} +\tau W\) by a bounded compactly supported potential \(W\) with coupling constant \(\tau\). Here \(H_0 := -\Delta+ V_0\) is a non-random Schrödinger operator with a bounded \({\mathbb Z}^d\)-periodic potential \(V_0\), \(\omega:=(\omega_k)_{k\in {\mathbb Z}^d} \in {\mathbb R}^{{\mathbb Z}^d}\) is an independently and identically distributed sequence of random variables according to the probability measure \({\mathbb P} := \otimes_{k\in {\mathbb Z}^d}{\mathbb P} _0\) with the single-site distribution \({\mathbb P} _0\) being absolutely continuous with respect to the Lebesgue measure having bounded density \(\rho\) with \(\operatorname{supp}\rho \subseteq (0,1]\), and \(u_k := u(\cdot - k)\) are translates of \(0 \leq u \in L_c^{\infty}({\mathbb R})\) such that \(\sum_{k\in {\mathbb Z}^d} u_k\) is bounded away from zero. The main outcome is that when the Fermi energies are in the region of complete localization, Anderson orthogonality does occur with a non-zero probability. The proof is through the analysis around the spectral shift function of the pair \((H_{\omega}, H^{\tau}_{\omega})\) for these energies. The authors also refer to some non-rigorous findings of the fact concerned in the physics literature.

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