Lifshits tails caused by anisotropic decay: the emergence of a quantum-classical regime

Schrödinger operator, Schrödinger equation (35J10) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

Abstract: We investigate Lifshits-tail behaviour of the integrated density of states for a wide class of Schr"odinger operators with positive random potentials. The setting includes alloy-type and Poissonian random potentials. The considered (single-site) impurity potentials

f : m a t h b b m R^{d} o [0, i n f t y [

decay at infinity in an anisotropic way, for example,

f (x_{1}, x_{2}) s i m (| x_{1} |^{a l p h a_{1}} + | x_{2} |^{a l p h a_{2}})^{- 1}

as

| (x_{1}, x_{2}) | o i n f t y

. As is expected from the isotropic situation, there is a so-called quantum regime with Lifshits exponent

d / 2

if both

a l p h a_{1}

and

a l p h a_{2}

are big enough, and there is a so-called classical regime with Lifshits exponent depending on

a l p h a_{1}

and

a l p h a_{2}

if both are small. In addition to this we find two new regimes where the Lifshits exponent exhibits a mixture of quantum and classical behaviour. Moreover, the transition lines between these regimes depend in a nontrivial way on

a l p h a_{1}

and

a l p h a_{2}

simultaneously.

Review text

In this paper the authors investigate the Lifshits-tail behaviour of the integrated density of states for some classes of Schrödinger operators with positive random potentials. They consider both the case of potentials that decay in an anisotropic way at infinity and the class of random potentials given in terms of random Borel measures.

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