Quantum Lattice Wave Guides with Randomness -- Localisation and Delocalisation

Publication date 24 June 2020

Random linear operators (47B80) Random operators and equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) (60H25) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

Abstract: In this paper we consider Schr"{o}dinger operators on

M i m e s m a t h b b Z^{d_{2}}

, with

M = {M_{1}, l d o t s, M_{2}}^{d_{1}}

(`quantum wave guides') with a `

G a m m a

-trimmed' random potential, namely a potential which vanishes outside a subset

G a m m a

which is periodic with respect to a sub lattice. We prove that (under appropriate assumptions) for strong disorder these operators have emph{pure point spectrum } outside the set

S i g m a_{0} = s i g m a (H_{0, G a m m a^{c}})

where

H_{0, G a m m a^{c}}

is the free (discrete) Laplacian on the complement

G a m m a^{c}

of

G a m m a

. We also prove that the operators have some emph{absolutely continuous spectrum} in an energy region

m a t h c a l E s u b s e t S i g m a_{0}

. Consequently, there is a mobility edge for such models. We also consider the case

- M_{1} = M_{2} = i n f t y

, i.~e.~

G a m m a

-trimmed operators on

m a t h b b Z^{d} = m a t h b b Z^{d_{1}} i m e s m a t h b b Z^{d_{2}}

. Again, we prove localisation outside

S i g m a_{0}

by showing exponential decay of the Green function

G_{E + i e t a} (x, y)

uniformly in

e t a > 0

. For emph{all} energies

E i n m a t h c a l E

we prove that the Green's function

G_{E + i e t a}

is emph{not} (uniformly) in

e l l^{1}

as

e t a

approaches

0

. This implies that neither the fractional moment method nor multi scale analysis emph{can} be applied here.

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