Dynamical properties of random Schr\"odinger operators

Authors Jean-Marie Barbaroux, Werner Fischer, Peter Müller

Publication date 1 July 1999

Abstract: We study dynamical properties of random Schr"odinger operators

H^{(o m e g a)}

defined on the Hilbert space

or

. Building on results from existing multi-scale analyses, we give sufficient conditions on

H^{(o m e g a)}

to obtain the vanishing of the diffusion exponent

sigma_{ m diff}^+ := limsup_{T ightarrowinfty } frac{log �bE left(lalavert X vert^2 a a_{T,f_I(H^{(omega)})psi} ight) }{log T}=0.

Here

is the expectation over randomness,

f_{I}

is any smooth characteristic function of a bounded energy-interval

I

and

p s i

is a state vector in the domain of

H^{(o m e g a)}

with compact spatial support. The quantity

l a l a | X |^{2} a a_{T, v a r p h i}

denotes the Cesaro mean up to time

T

of the second moment of position

l a | X |^{2} a_{t, v a r p h i}

at times

0 l e t l e T

of an initial state vector

v a r p h i

. If the Hilbert space is

, the method of proof can be strengthened to yield dynamical localization. Under weaker assumptions, we also prove a theorem on the absence of diffusion. The results are applied to a randomly perturbed periodic Schr"odinger operator on

, to a simple Anderson-type model on the lattice and to a model with a correlated random potential in continuous space.

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