Fluctuations of random matrix products and 1D Dirac equation with random mass

Abstract: We study the fluctuations of certain random matrix products

P i_{N} = M_{N} c d o t s M_{2} M_{1}

of

m a t h r m S L (2, m a t h b b R)

, describing localisation properties of the one-dimensional Dirac equation with random mass. In the continuum limit, i.e. when matrices

M_{n}

's are close to the identity matrix, we obtain convenient integral representations for the variance

G a m m a_{2} = l i m_{N o i n f t y} m a t h r m V a r (l n | | P i_{N} | |) / N

. The case studied exhibits a saturation of the variance at low energy

v a r e p s i l o n

along with a vanishing Lyapunov exponent

G a m m a_{1} = l i m_{N o i n f t y} l n | | P i_{N} | | / N

, leading to the behaviour

G a m m a_{2} / G a m m a_{1} s i m l n (1 / | v a r e p s i l o n |) o i n f t y

as

v a r e p s i l o n o 0

. Our continuum description sheds new light on the Kappus-Wegner (band center) anomaly.

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