Wegner estimate and Anderson localization for random magnetic fields

DOI10.1007/S00220-011-1373-ZMaRDI QIDQ661325zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors László Erdős, David Hasler

Publication date 10 February 2012

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.5185

zbMATH Keywords

Anderson localizationdensitySchrödinder operatorspectrumWegner estimate

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We consider a two dimensional magnetic Schroedinger operator with a spatially stationary random magnetic field. We assume that the magnetic field has a positive lower bound and that it has Fourier modes on arbitrarily short scales. We prove the Wegner estimate at arbitrary energy, i.e. we show that the averaged density of states is finite throughout the whole spectrum. We also prove Anderson localization at the bottom of the spectrum.

Review text

The authors provide a new method to prove a Wegner estimate that applies to a certain class of spatially stationary random magnetic fields and to any energy in the spectrum. Note that the Wegner estimate is one of the important estimates in the mathematical proof of the Anderson localization since it provides an a priori bound for the resolvent with a very high probability. This, roughly speaking, is formulated for the finite volume truncation \(H_L\) of \(H\) onto a box \(L = [-L/2,L/2]^2\) with some boundary conditions. The Wegner estimate states that the expected number of eigenvalues of \(H_L\) within a small spectral interval \(I\) is bounded from above by \(C(L)|I|\), where \(|I|<<1\) denotes the length of the interval. As \(|I|\to 0\), this provides an upper bound on the averaged density of states and Lipschitz continuity of the averaged integrated density of states. Ideally, the constant \(C(L)\) should be proportional with the volume of the box, but for the purpose of Anderson localization \(C(L)\) often may even grow subexponentially with the volume. The estimate obtained in the paper gives the optimal (first) power of \(|I|\), but not the optimal volume dependence: \(C(L)\) is a high (but universal) power of \(L\). As an application of the Wegner estimate, Anderson localization for the model at the bottom of the spectrum is proved.

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