Some mathematical aspects of Anderson localization: boundary effect, multimodality, and bifurcation

DOI10.1088/1572-9494/AC7A1EzbMATH Open1516.82044arXiv2112.13913OpenAlexW4225508092MaRDI QIDQ6157080FDOQ6157080

Authors: Chen Jia, Ziqi Liu, Zhimin Zhang 

Publication date: 19 June 2023

Published in: Communications in Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Anderson localization is a famous wave phenomenon that describes the absence of diffusion of waves in a disordered medium. Here we generalize the landscape theory of Anderson localization to general elliptic operators and complex boundary conditions using a probabilistic approach, and further investigate some mathematical aspects of Anderson localization that are rarely discussed before. First, we observe that under the Neumann boundary condition, the low energy quantum states are localized on the boundary of the domain with high probability. We provide a detailed explanation of this phenomenon using the concept of extended subregions and obtain an analytical expression of this probability in the one-dimensional case. Second, we find that the quantum states may be localized in multiple different subregions with high probability in the one-dimensional case and we derive an explicit expression of this probability for various boundary conditions. Finally, we examine a bifurcation phenomenon of the localization subregion as the strength of disorder varies. The critical threshold of bifurcation is analytically computed based on a toy model and the dependence of the critical threshold on model parameters is analyzed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.13913

zbMATH Keywords

confinementeigenfunctioneigenvalueelliptic operatorspectrumeigenmodelandscapeSchrödinger operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

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