28 research outputs found
Spectral extrema and Lifshitz tails for non monotonous alloy type models
In the present note, we determine the ground state energy and study the
existence of Lifshitz tails near this energy for some non monotonous alloy type
models. Here, non monotonous means that the single site potential coming into
the alloy random potential changes sign. In particular, the random operator is
not a monotonous function of the random variables
Wegner estimate for discrete alloy-type models
We study discrete alloy-type random Schr\"odinger operators on
. Wegner estimates are bounds on the average number of
eigenvalues in an energy interval of finite box restrictions of these types of
operators. If the single site potential is compactly supported and the
distribution of the coupling constant is of bounded variation a Wegner estimate
holds. The bound is polynomial in the volume of the box and thus applicable as
an ingredient for a localisation proof via multiscale analysis.Comment: Accepted for publication in AHP. For an earlier version see
http://www.ma.utexas.edu/mp_arc-bin/mpa?yn=09-10
Low lying spectrum of weak-disorder quantum waveguides
We study the low-lying spectrum of the Dirichlet Laplace operator on a
randomly wiggled strip. More precisely, our results are formulated in terms of
the eigenvalues of finite segment approximations of the infinite waveguide.
Under appropriate weak-disorder assumptions we obtain deterministic and
probabilistic bounds on the position of the lowest eigenvalue. A Combes-Thomas
argument allows us to obtain so-called 'initial length scale decay estimates'
at they are used in the proof of spectral localization using the multiscale
analysis.Comment: Accepted for publication in Journal of Statistical Physics
http://www.springerlink.com/content/0022-471
Localization for the random displacement model at weak disorder
This paper is devoted to the study of the random displacement model on
. We prove that, in the weak displacement regime, Anderson and dynamical
localization holds near the bottom of the spectrum under a generic assumption
on the single site potential and a fairly general assumption on the support of
the possible displacements. This result follows from the proof of the existence
of Lifshitz tail and of a Wegner estimate for the model under scrutiny
Lifshitz Tails for Generalized Alloy Type Random Schrödinger Operators
We study Lifshitz tails for random Schrödinger operators where the random potential is alloy type in the sense that the single site potentials are independent, identically distributed, but they may have various function forms. We suppose the single site potentials are distributed in a finite set of functions, and we show that under suitable symmetry conditions, they have Lifshitz tail at the bottom of the spectrum except for special cases. When the single site potential is symmetric with respect to all the axes, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of Lifshitz tails. As an application, we show that certain random displacement models have Lifshitz singularity at the bottom of the spectrum, and also complete the study of continuous Anderson type models undertaken in arXiv : 0804.407
Understanding the Random Displacement Model: From Ground-State Properties to Localization
We give a detailed survey of results obtained in the most recent half decade
which led to a deeper understanding of the random displacement model, a model
of a random Schr\"odinger operator which describes the quantum mechanics of an
electron in a structurally disordered medium. These results started by
identifying configurations which characterize minimal energy, then led to
Lifshitz tail bounds on the integrated density of states as well as a Wegner
estimate near the spectral minimum, which ultimately resulted in a proof of
spectral and dynamical localization at low energy for the multi-dimensional
random displacement model.Comment: 31 pages, 7 figures, final version, to appear in Proceedings of
"Spectral Days 2010", Santiago, Chile, September 20-24, 201