Quantum diffusion and delocalization for band matrices with general distribution

DOI10.1007/S00023-011-0104-5zbMATH Open1247.15033arXiv1005.1838OpenAlexW2061299969MaRDI QIDQ644338FDOQ644338

Authors: László Erdős, Antti Knowles 

Publication date: 4 November 2011

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

Abstract: We consider Hermitian and symmetric random band matrices $H$ in $dgeq1$ dimensions. The matrix elements $H_{xy}$, indexed by $$, are independent and their variances satisfy $sigm{a}_{xy}^2:=Eabs{H_{xy}}^2=W^{-d}f((x-y)/W)$ for some probability density $f$. We assume that the law of each matrix element $H_{xy}$ is symmetric and exhibits subexponential decay. We prove that the time evolution of a quantum particle subject to the Hamiltonian $H$ is diffusive on time scales $tll{W}^{d/3}$. We also show that the localization length of the eigenvectors of $H$ is larger than a factor $W^{d/6}$ times the band width $W$. All results are uniform in the size $absLambda$ of the matrix. This extends our recent result cite{erdosknowles} to general band matrices. As another consequence of our proof we show that, for a larger class of random matrices satisfying $su{m}_{x}sigm{a}_{xy}^2=1$ for all $y$, the largest eigenvalue of $H$ is bounded with high probability by $2+M^{-2/3+epsilon}$ for any $epsilon>0$, where $Mdeq1/(ma{x}_{x,y}sigm{a}_{xy}^2)$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.1838

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zbMATH Keywords

eigenvectorseigenvaluerandom matricesHamiltonianquantum theoryclosed and approximate solutionquantum-mechanical equationselfadjoint operator theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors (15A18) Random matrices (algebraic aspects) (15B52) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10)

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