Renormalization group analysis of the hierarchical Anderson model

DOI10.1007/S00023-016-0549-7MaRDI QIDQ2364602zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Per von Soosten, S. Warzel

Publication date 21 July 2017

Published in Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.01602

zbMATH Keywords

Anderson modeleigenvaluelocalizationrenormalization group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B28) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

Abstract: We apply Feshbach-Krein-Schur renormalization techniques in the hierarchical Anderson model to establish a criterion on the single-site distribution which ensures exponential dynamical localization as well as positive inverse participation ratios and Poisson statistics of eigenvalues. Our criterion applies to all cases of exponentially decaying hierarchical hopping strengths and holds even for spectral dimension $d>2$, which corresponds to the regime of transience of the underlying hierarchical random walk. This challenges recent numerical findings that the spectral dimension is significant as far as the Anderson transition is concerned.

Review text

The present paper is devoted to the study of the hierarchical Anderson model which was first considered by \textit{A. Bovier} [J. Stat. Phys. 59, No. 3--4, 745--779 (1990; Zbl 0718.60121)]. Quite recently in [\textit{F. L. Metz}, et al., ``Transition between localized and extended states in the hierarchical Anderson model, Phys. Rev. B 88, No. 4, Article ID 045103, 7 p. (2013; \url{doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.88.045103})] it was observed that by numerical simulations the appearance of a special energy in (effective spectral) dimension \(d>2\), for which delocalized eigenvectors appear in the case of a weak Gaussian random potential. In the present paper, the authors are argueing that as long as the hierarchical hopping is summable, all states are localized in every possible specification of that term and the eigenvalues exhibit Poisson statistics. By means of Feshbach-Krein-Schur renormalization techniques in the hierarchical Anderson model, a criterion on the single-site distribution is established which ensures exponential dynamical localization as well as positive inverse participation ratios and Poisson statistics of eigenvalues. The provided criterion can be applied to all cases of exponentially decaying hierarchical hopping strengths. Moreover, it holds even for spectral dimension \(d>2\).

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