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Individual energy level distributions for one-dimensional diagonal and off-diagonal disorder
We study the distribution of the -th energy level for two different
one-dimensional random potentials. This distribution is shown to be related to
the distribution of the distance between two consecutive nodes of the wave
function.
We first consider the case of a white noise potential and study the
distributions of energy level both in the positive and the negative part of the
spectrum. It is demonstrated that, in the limit of a large system
(), the distribution of the -th energy level is given by a
scaling law which is shown to be related to the extreme value statistics of a
set of independent variables.
In the second part we consider the case of a supersymmetric random
Hamiltonian (potential ). We study first the case of
being a white noise with zero mean. It is in particular shown that
the ground state energy, which behaves on average like in
agreement with previous work, is not a self averaging quantity in the limit
as is seen in the case of diagonal disorder. Then we consider the
case when has a non zero mean value.Comment: LaTeX, 33 pages, 9 figure