Counting the exponents of single transfer matrices

DOI10.1063/1.3594654zbMATH Open1317.82020arXiv1102.1641OpenAlexW3106351047MaRDI QIDQ5266045FDOQ5266045

Giuseppe Lacagnina, Luca Guido Molinari

Publication date: 29 July 2015

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The eigenvalue equation of a band or a block tridiagonal matrix, the tight binding model for a crystal, a molecule, or a particle in a lattice with random potential or hopping amplitudes: these and other problems lead to three-term recursive relations for (multicomponent) amplitudes. Amplitudes n steps apart are linearly related by a transfer matrix, which is the product of n matrices. Its exponents describe the decay lengths of the amplitudes. A formula is obtained for the counting function of the exponents, based on a duality relation and the Argument Principle for the zeros of analytic functions. It involves the corner blocks of the inverse of the associated Hamiltonian matrix. As an illustration, numerical evaluations of the counting function of quasi 1D Anderson model are shown.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.1641

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors (15A18) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Matrix exponential and similar functions of matrices (15A16) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44) Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25) Numerical computation of matrix exponential and similar matrix functions (65F60)

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• Spectral duality and distribution of exponents for transfer matrices of block-tridiagonal Hamiltonians

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