lyapunov exponents for unitary anderson models we study a unitary version of the one dimensional anderson model given by a five diagonal deterministic unitary operator multiplicatively perturbed by a random phase matrix we fully characterize positivity and vanishing of the lyapunov exponent for this model throughout the spectrum and for arbitrary distributions of the random phases this includes bernoulli distributions where in certain cases a finite number of critical spectral values with vanishing lyapunov exponent exist we establish similar results for a unitary version of the random dimer model

singular continuous spectrum for palindromic schrodinger operators we give new examples of discrete schrodinger operators with potentials taking finitely many values that have purely singular continuous spectrum if the hullx of the potential is strictly ergodic then the existence of just one potentialx inx for which the operator has no eigenvalues implies that there is a generic set inx for which the operator has purely singular continuous spectrum a sufficient condition for the existence of such anx is that there is az x that contains arbitrarily long palindromes thus we can define a large class of primitive substitutions for which the operators are purely singularly continuous for a generic subset inx the class includes well known substitutions like fibonacci thue morse period doubling binary non pisot and ternary non pisot we also show that the operator has no absolutely continuous spectrum for allx x ifx derives from a primitive substitution for potentials defined by circle maps x n 1 j 0 n we show that the operator has purely singular continuous spectrum for a generic subset inx for all irrational and every half open intervalj

large deviations of the lyapunov exponent and localization for the 1d anderson model the proof of anderson localization for the 1d anderson model with arbitrary e g bernoulli disorder originally given by carmona klein martinelli in 1987 is based in part on the multi scale analysis later in the 90s it was realized that for one dimensional models with positive lyapunov exponents some parts of multi scale analysis can be replaced by considerations involving subharmonicity and large deviation estimates for the corresponding cocycle leading to nonperturbative proofs for 1d quasiperiodic models in this paper we present a short proof along these lines for the anderson model to prove dynamical localization we also develop a uniform version of craig simon s bound that works in high generality and may be of independent interest

upper bounds on wavepacket spreading for random jacobi matrices a method is presented for proving upper bounds on the moments of the position operator when the dynamics of quantum wavepackets is governed by a random possibly correlated jacobi matrix as an application one obtains sharp upper bounds on the diffusion exponents for random polymer models coinciding with the lower bounds obtained in a prior work the second application is an elementary argument not using multiscale analysis or the aizenman molchanov method showing that under the condition of uniformly positive lyapunov exponents the moments of the position operator grow at most logarithmically in time

localization in the ground state of the one dimensional x y model with a random transverse field we consider the ground state of the quantum spin model h j sigma langle i j rangle sigma x i sigma x j sigma y i sigma y j sigma i h i sigma z i in one dimension where hi iez are independent identically distributed random variables by means of a jordan wigner transformation the model is mapped into a free fermi gas in the presence of a random external potential we then use exponential localization of the one particle states to prove exponential decay for the spin spin correlation functions

regularity of the invariant measure and of the density of states in the one dimensional anderson model abstract let h 1 2 v on l2 z where v x x z are i i d r v s with common probability distribution let h t e itvd v let n e be the integrated density of states and let e be the invariant measure at energy e it is proven 1 1 let h be d times differentiable on 0 with bounded derivatives such that h j t 0 as t for j 0 1 d then i n e is a cd function ii if d 3 e is absolutely continuous for all e r and d e dx is of class c d 1 2 1 jointly in e and x 2 2 let h be differentiable on 0 with h j t o e b t for j 0 1 and some b 0 then d e dx is jointly analytic in e and x

decay rate of the green function in a random potential on the bethe lattice and a criterion for localization it is shown that in the tight binding anderson model on the bethe lattice the exponential decay rate of the green function can be obtained for arbitrary energies and arbitrary disorder analytical results in the case of the lorentzian distribution of site energies are presented as an application of these results a criterion for the localized region on the corresponding regular lattice on the level of the bethe peierls approximation is proposed our criterion yields exact results in the one dimensional limit and yields correct band edges for the hypercubic lattice in the vanishing limit of disorder the mobility edge trajectory obtained by our criterion is given by an elliptic curve in the case of the lorentzian distribution and its shape is found to be in qualitatively good agreement with that obtained by the finite size scaling method in the three dimensional system

random magnetic fields on line graphs we study the spectral and transport properties of schrodinger operators on line graphs with random magnetic fields we show that it has a pure point spectrum with exponentially decaying eigenfunctions on spectral edges whereas there appears an eigenvalue with infinite multiplicity due to the structure of line graphs we compute the electrical conductivity which is zero on spectral edges but is nonzero and finite on the isolated eigenvalue mentioned above some related problems are also discussed

localization for the anderson model on a strip with singular potentials abstract we prove exponential localization in the anderson model on a one dimensional strip for any potential whose probability distribution is not concentrated on a single point and possesses some finite moment in particular we obtain localization for bernoulli potentials on a strip

a note on fractional moments for the one dimensional continuum anderson model we give a proof of dynamical localization in the form of exponential decay of spatial correlations in the time evolution for the one dimensional continuum anderson model via the fractional moments method this follows via exponential decay of fractional moments of the green function which is shown to hold at arbitrary energy and for any single site distribution with bounded compactly supported density

dynamical localization for the random dimer schrodinger operator we study the one dimensional random dimer model with hamiltonian h v where for all x mathbb z v 2x v 2x 1 and where the v 2x are i i d bernoulli random variables taking the values v v 0 we show that for all values of vand with probability one in the spectrum of his pure point if v 1 and v 1 sqrt 2 the lyapunov exponent vanishes only at the two critical energies given by e v for the particular value v 1 sqrt 2 respectively v sqrt 2 we show the existence of new additional critical energies at e 3 sqrt 2 respectively e 0 on any compact interval inot containing the critical energies the eigenfunctions are then shown to be semi uniformly exponentially localized and this implies dynamical localization for all q 0 and for all ell 2 mathbb z with sufficiently rapid decrease mathop sup limits t r psi i left q right kern 1pt left t right mathop sup limits t left langle p i left h omega right psi t left x right q p i left h omega right psi t right rangle infty here psi t e ih omega t psi and pi h is the spectral projector of h onto the interval i in particular if v 1 and v sqrt 2 these results hold on the entire spectrum so that one can take i h

spectra and transport in almost periodic dimers we study spectral properties of discrete schrodinger operators with potentials obtained via dimerization of a class of aperiodic sequences it is shown that both the nature of the autocorrelation measure of a regular sequence and the presence of generic full probability singular continuous spectrum in the hull of primitive and palindromic four block substitution potentials are robust under dimerization generic results also hold for circle potentials we illustrate these results with numerical studies of the quantum mean square displacement as a function of time the numerical techniques provide a very fast algorithm for the time evolution of wave packets

new characterizations of the region of complete localization for random schrodinger operators we study the region of complete localization in a class of random operators which includes random schrodinger operators with anderson type potentials and classical wave operators in random media as well as the anderson tight binding model we establish new characterizations or criteria for this region of complete localization given either by the decay of eigenfunction correlations or by the decay of fermi projections these are necessary and sufficient conditions for the random operator to exhibit complete localization in this energy region using the first type of characterization we prove that in the region of complete localization the random operator has eigenvalues with finite multiplicity

harmonic analysis on sl 2 r and smoothness of the density of states in the one dimensional anderson model we consider infinite jacobi matrices with ones off diagonal and independent identically distributed random variables with distributionf v dv on diagonal iff has compact support and lies in some sobolev spacel 1 then we prove that the integrated density of states k e isc ine

anderson model with decaying randomness mobility edge in this paper we consider the anderson model with decaying randomness a nq omega n a n 0 n in mathbb z nu and q omega n i i d random variables with an absolutely continuous distribution mu for a class of mu we show the following results on a set omega of full measure

smoothness of the integrated density of states on strips smoothness of the integrated density of states k e of random schrodinger operators i i d and non i i d cases on a discrete strip lattice is investigated it is proven that k e is c if only the potentials on the top surface of the strip have distributions with compactly supported densities in some fractional sobolev space the c result for the case of the anderson model i e all potentials having a distribution with compactly supported density in some sobolev space is also recovered

a mean field approximation for the maximum lyapunov exponent of bernoulli trials of matrices the author considers the infinite products of d d random matrices xi which are taken according to a bernoulli distribution i e xi a with probability 1 p and xi b with probability the maximum lyapunov exponent is estimated by selecting a suitable periodic sequence one need only then compute the eigenvalues of one particular matrix which is obtained as a finite product of matrices a and b he also discusses the cases in which the method fails because of fluctuation effects

a characterization of the anderson metal insulator transport transition we investigate the anderson metal insulator transition for random schrodinger operators we define the strong insulator region to be the part of the spectrum where the random operator exhibits strong dynamical localization in the hilbert schmidt norm we introduce a local transport exponent e and set the weak metallic transport region to be the part of the spectrum with nontrivial transport i e e 0 we prove that these insulator and metallic regions are complementary sets in the spectrum of the random operator and that the local transport exponent e provides a characterization of the metal insulator transport transition moreover we show that if there is such a transition then e has to be discontinuous at a transport mobility edge more precisely we show that if the transport is nontrivial then e 1 2d where d is the space dimension these results follow from a proof that slow transport of quantum waves in random media implies the starting hypothesis for the authors bootstrap multiscale analysis we also conclude that the strong insulator region coincides with the part of the spectrum where we can perform a bootstrap multiscale analysis proving that the multiscale analysis is valid all the way up to a transport mobility edge

1d quasiperiodic operators latent symmetries a large class of discrete quasiperiodic operators is shown to be decomposed into orbits ofsl 2 z action with equal densities of states moreover under some natural assumptions all nontrivial representatives of the mentioned action transform operators with pure point spectrum into those with absolutely continuous spectrum some applications of these results are presented

explicit invariant measures for products of random matrices we construct explicit invariant measures for a family of infinite products of random independent identically distributed elements of sl 2 c the matrices in the product are such that one entry is gamma distributed along a ray in the complex plane when the ray is the positive real axis the products are those associated with a continued fraction studied by letac seshadri z wahr verw geb 62 1983 485 489 who showed that the distribution of the continued fraction is a generalised inverse gaussian we extend this result by finding the distribution for an arbitrary ray in the complex right half plane and thus compute the corresponding lyapunov exponent explicitly when the ray lies on the imaginary axis the matrices in the infinite product coincide with the transfer matrices associated with a one dimensional discrete schrodinger operator with a random gamma distributed potential hence the explicit knowledge of the lyapunov exponent may be used to estimate the exponential rate of localisation of the eigenstates

extended states in the anderson model on the bethe lattice abstract we prove that the anderson hamiltonianh von the bethe lattice has extended states for small disorder more precisely given any closed intervalicontained in the interior of the spectrum of the laplacian on the bethe lattice we prove that for small disorderh has purely absolutely continuous spectrum iniwith probability one i e ac h i iand pp h i sc h i with probability one and its integrated density of states is continuously differentiable on the intervali

dynamical delocalization in random landau hamiltonians we prove the existence of dynamical delocalization for random landau hamiltonians near each landau level since typically there is dynamical localization at the edges of each disordered broadened landau band this implies the existence of at least one dynamical mobility edge at each landau band namely a boundary point between the localization and delocalization regimes which we prove to converge to the corresponding landau level as either the magnetic field goes to infinity or the disorder goes to zero in this article we prove the existence of dynamical delocalization for random landau hamiltonians near each landau level more precisely we prove that for these two dimensional hamiltonians there exists at least one energy e near each landau level such that e 1 where e the local transport exponent introduced in gk5 is a measure of the rate of transport in wave packets with spectral support near e since typically there is dynamical localization at the edges of each disordered broadened landau band this implies the existence of at least one dynamical mobility edge at each landau band namely a boundary point between the localization and delocalization regimes which we prove to converge to the corresponding landau level as either the magnetic field goes to infinity or the disorder goes to zero random landau hamiltonians are the subject of intensive study due to their links with the integer quantum hall e ect kli for which von klitzing received the 1985 nobel prize in physics they describe an electron moving in a very thin flat conductor with impurities under the influence of a constant magnetic field perpendicular to the plane of the conductor and play an important role in the understanding of the quantum hall e ect l aoa t h nt ku be avss bees laughlin s argument l as pointed out by halperin h uses the assumption that under weak disorder and strong magnetic field the energy spectrum consists of bands of extended states separated

critical energies in random palindrome models we investigate the occurrence of critical energies where the lyapunov exponent vanishes in random schrodinger operators when the potentials have some local order which we call random palindrome models we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the presence of such critical energies the commutativity of finite word elliptic transfer matrices finally we perform some numerical calculations of the lyapunov exponents showing their behavior near the critical energies and the respective time evolution of an initially localized wave packet obtaining the exponent ruling the algebraic growth of the second momentum we also consider special random palindrome models with one letter bounded gap property the transport effects of such long range order are showed numerically

local fluctuation of the spectrum of a multidimensional anderson tight binding model we consider the anderson tight binding modelh v acting inl 2 z d and its restrictionh to finite hypercubes z d herev v x x z d is a random potential consisting of independent identically distributed random variables let e j j be the eigenvalues ofh and let j e e j e j 1 be its rescaled eigenvalues then assuming that the exponential decay of the fractional moment of the green function holds for complex energies neare and that the density of statesn e exists ate we shall prove that the random sequence j e j considered as a point process onr 1 converges weakly to the stationary poisson point process with intensity measuren e dx as gets large thus extending the result of molchanov proved for a one dimensional continuum random schrodinger operator on the other hand the exponential decay of the fractional moment of the green function was established recently by aizenman molchanov and graf as a technical lemma for proving anderson localization at large disorder or at extreme energy thus our result in this paper can be summarized as follows near the energye where anderson localization is expected there is no correlation between eigenvalues ofh if is large

dynamical localization for discrete anderson dirac operators we establish dynamical localization for random dirac operators on the d dimensional lattice with d in left 1 2 3 right in the three usual regimes large disorder band edge and 1d these operators are discrete versions of the continuous dirac operators and consist in the sum of a discrete free dirac operator with a random potential the potential is a diagonal matrix formed by different scalar potentials which are sequences of independent and identically distributed random variables according to an absolutely continuous probability measure with bounded density and of compact support we prove the exponential decay of fractional moments of the green function for such models in each of the above regimes i e j throughout the spectrum at larger disorder jj for energies near the band edges at arbitrary disorder and jjj in dimension one for all energies in the spectrum and arbitrary disorder dynamical localization in theses regimes follows from the fractional moments method the result in the one dimensional regime contrast with one that was previously obtained for 1d dirac model with bernoulli potential

ground state energy of the one dimensional discrete random schrodinger operator with bernoulli potential in this paper we show the that the ground state energy of the one dimensional discrete random schrodinger operator with bernoulli potential is controlled asymptotically as the system size n goes to infinity by the random variable l n the length the longest consecutive sequence of sites on the lattice with potential equal to zero specifically we will show that for almost every realization of the potential the ground state energy behaves asymptotically as frac pi 2 ell n 1 2 in the sense that the ratio of the quantities goes to one

dynamical localization for discrete and continuous random schrodinger operators we show for a large class of random schrodinger operators h on and on that dynamical localization holds i e that with probability one for a suitable energy interval i and for q a positive real here is a function of sufficiently rapid decrease and p i h is the spectral projector of h corresponding to the interval i the result is obtained through the control of the decay of the eigenfunctions of h and covers in the discrete case the anderson tight binding model with bernoulli potential dimension 1 or singular potential 1 and in the continuous case anderson as well as random landau hamiltonians

delocalization in random polymer models a random polymer model is a one dimensional jacobi matrix randomly composed of two finite building blocks if the two associated transfer matrices commute the corresponding energy is called critical such critical energies appear in physical models an example being the widely studied random dimer model it is proven that the lyapunov exponent vanishes quadratically at a generic critical energy and that the density of states is positive there large deviation estimates around these asymptotics allow to prove optimal lower bounds on quantum transport showing that it is almost surely overdiffusive even though the models are known to have pure point spectrum with exponentially localized eigenstates for almost every configuration of the polymers furthermore the level spacing is shown to be regular at the critical energy

anderson localization for bernoulli and other singular potentials we prove exponential localization in the anderson model under very weak assumptions on the potential distribution in one dimension we allow any measure which is not concentrated on a single point and possesses some finite moment in particular this solves the longstanding problem of localization for bernoulli potentials i e potentials that take only two values in dimensions greater than one we prove localization at high disorder for potentials with holder continuous distributions and for bounded potentials whose distribution is a convex combination of a holder continuous distribution with high disorder and an arbitrary distribution these include potentials with singular distributions we also show that for certain bernoulli potentials in one dimension the integrated density of states has a nontrivial singular component

absence of diffusion in the anderson tight binding model for large disorder or low energy we prove that the green s function of the anderson tight binding hamiltonian decays exponentially fast at long distances on v with probability 1 we must assume that either the disorder is large or the energy is sufficiently low our proof is based on perturbation theory about an infinite sequence of block hamiltonians and is related to kam methods

singular unbounded random jacobi matrices there have been several recent proofs of one dimensional anderson localization based on positive lyapunov exponent that hold for bounded potentials we provide a lyapunov exponent based proof for unbounded potentials simultaneously treating the singular and unbounded jacobi case by extending the techniques in a recent work by jitomirskaya and zhu there have been several recent proofs of one dimensional anderson localization based on positive lyapunov exponent that hold for bounded potentials we provide a lyapunov exponent based proof for unbounded potentials simultaneously treating the singular and unbounded jacobi case by extending the techniques in a recent work by jitomirskaya and zhu

zariski closure of subgroups of the symplectic group and lyapunov exponents of the schrodinger operator on the strip we consider the schrodinger equation with a random potential y n 1 q n ei y n y n 1 0 whereqn is a sequence of independent identically distributed random symmetricm m matrices with real valued elements yn m n e is the real parameter andi is the identity matrix we show that if the smallest jordan algebra of matrices containing the support of the distribution of matricesqn coincides with jordan algebra of all real valued symmetric matrices then for all but maybe a finite number of values ofe all the lyapunov exponents of our schrodinger equation are different and thus the spectrum of the corresponding schrodinger operator is pure point

singular continuous spectrum under rank one perturbations and localization for random hamiltonians we consider a selfadjoint operator a and a selfadjoint rank one projection p onto a vector which is cyclic for a in terms of the spectral measure d a we give necessary and sufficient conditions for a p to have empty singular continuous spectrum or to have only point spectrum for a e we apply these results to questions of localization in the one and multi dimensional anderson models

localization of the continuous anderson hamiltonian in 1 d we study the bottom of the spectrum of the anderson hamiltonian mathcal h l partial x 2 xi on 0 l driven by a white noise xi and endowed with either dirichlet or neumann boundary conditions we show that as l rightarrow infty the point process of the appropriately shifted and rescaled eigenvalues converges to a poisson point process on mathbf r with intensity e x dx and that the appropriately rescaled eigenfunctions converge to dirac masses located at independent and uniformly distributed points furthermore we show that the shape of each eigenfunction recentered around its maximum and properly rescaled is given by the inverse of a hyperbolic cosine we also show that the eigenfunctions decay exponentially from their localization centers at an explicit rate and we obtain very precise information on the zeros and local maxima of these eigenfunctions finally we show that the eigenvalues eigenfunctions in the dirichlet and neumann cases are very close to each other and converge to the same limits

localization for one dimensional continuum bernoulli anderson models we use scattering theoretic methods to prove strong dynamical and exponential localization for one dimensional continuum anderson type models with singular distributions in particular the case of a bernoulli dis tribution is covered the operators we consider model alloys composed of at least two distinct types of randomly dispersed atoms our main tools are the reflection and transmission coefficients for compactly supported single site perturbations of a periodic background which we use to verify the necessary hypotheses of multi scale analysis we show that non reflectionless single sites lead to a discrete set of exceptional energies away from which localization occurs

anderson localization for multi dimensional systems at large disorder or large energy we prove that discrete schrodinger operators on d with a random potential have almost surely only pure point spectrum and exponentially decaying eigenfunctions for large disorder or large energy this is the first proof of localization for multi dimensional anderson models

dynamical delocalization for the 1d bernoulli discrete dirac operator a 1d tight binding version of the dirac equation is considered after checking that it recovers the usual discrete schrodinger equation in the nonrelativistic limit it is found that for two valued bernoulli potentials the zero mass case presents the absence of dynamical localization for some specific values of the energy albeit it has no continuous spectrum for the other energy values again excluding some very specific ones the bernoulli dirac system is localized independently of the mass

optimal dual frames for communication coding with probabilistic erasures assume that a frame is preselected for encoding in a communication system we investigate the optimal dual frames for signal reconstruction decoding which minimize the maximal error when the probabilistic erasures occur in the transmission process from the perspective of mathematical theory of frames we set up a probability model under which we define the probability optimal po dual frames for a given frame when the frame based coding involves probabilistic erasures we obtain a sufficient and necessary condition under which the canonical dual frame is the unique po dual frame additionally we derive some general sufficient conditions for which the canonical dual frame is either not optimal or it is optimal but not the unique optimal one we present two simulation examples to compare the reconstruction effects when both the po dual frames and the general optimal go dual frames are used for reconstruction

lower transport bounds for one dimensional continuum schrodinger operators we prove quantum dynamical lower bounds for one dimensional continuum schrodinger operators that possess critical energies for which there is slow growth of transfer matrix norms and a large class of compactly supported initial states this general result is applied to a number of models including the bernoulli anderson model with a constant single site potential

localization at large disorder and at extreme energies an elementary derivation the work presents a short proof of localization under the conditions of either strong disorder 0 or extreme energies for a wide class of self adjoint operators with random matrix elements acting inl 2 spaces a prototypical example is the discrete schrodinger operatorh u 0 x v x onz d d 1 withu 0 x a specified background potential and v x generated as random variables the general results apply to operators with replaced by a non local self adjoint operatort whose matrix elements satisfy y t x y s const uniformly inx for somes 1 localization means here that within a specified energy range the spectrum ofh is of the pure point type or equivalently the wave functions do not spread indefinitely under the unitary time evolution generated byh the effect is produced by strong disorder in either the potential or in the off diagonal matrix elementst x y under rapid decay oft x y the corresponding eigenfunctions are also proven to decay exponentially the method is based on resolvent techniques the central technical ideas include the use of low moments of the resolvent kernel i e g e x y s withs small enough 1 to avoid the divergence caused by the distribution s cauchy tails and an effective use of the simple form of the dependence ofg e x y on the individual matrix elements ofh in elucidating the implications of the fundamental equation h e g e x x 0 x x0 this approach simplifies previous derivations of localization results avoiding the small denominator difficulties which have been hitherto encountered in the subject it also yields some new results which include localization under the following sets of conditions i potentials with an inhomogeneous non random partu 0 x ii the bethe lattice iii operators with very slow decay in the off diagonal terms t x y 1 x y d e and iv localization produced by disordered boundary conditions

constructive proof of localization in the anderson tight binding model we prove that for large disorder or near the band tails the spectrum of the anderson tight binding hamiltonian with diagonal disorder consists exclusively of discrete eigenvalues the corresponding eigenfunctions are exponentially well localized these results hold in arbitrary dimension and with probability one in one dimension we recover the result that all states are localized for arbitrary energies and arbitrarily small disorder our techniques extend to other physical systems which exhibit localization phenomena such as infinite systems of coupled harmonic oscillators or random schrodinger operators in the continuum

quantum hamiltonians with quasi ballistic dynamics and point spectrum abstract consider the family of schrodinger operators and also its dirac version on l 2 z or l 2 n h s w f s n w where s is a transformation on compact metric f is a real lipschitz function and w is a sufficiently fast power decaying perturbation under certain conditions it is shown that h s w presents quasi ballistic dynamics for in a dense g set applications include potentials generated by rotations of the torus with analytic condition on f doubling map axiom a dynamical systems and the anderson model if w is a rank one perturbation examples of h s w with quasi ballistic dynamics and point spectrum are also presented

localization for discrete one dimensional random word models we consider schrodinger operators in l2 z whose potentials are obtained by randomly concatenating words from an underlying set w according to some probability measure on w our assumptions allow us to consider models with local correlations such as the random dimer model or more generally random polymer models we prove spectral localization and away from a finite set of exceptional energies dynamical localization for such models these results are obtained by employing scattering theoretic methods together with furstenberg s theorem to verify the necessary input to perform a multiscale analysis

local power of a cramer von mises type test for parametric autoregressive models of order one in this paper we study the local power of a cramer von mises type test for parametric autoregressive models when the data are stationary and ergodic our test is based on the limiting distribution of the cumulative residual process associated to the null model we prove the contiguity of the null hypothesis h 0 and a sequence of local alternatives that converges to h 0 at rate 1 n from a fixed direction from this result the limiting distribution of the test statistic and the power are computed under these local alternatives simulation experiments show that the test is powerful against some exponential models

quantum particle in a hierarchical potential with tunnelling over arbitrarily large scales the authors introduce a notion of hierarchical potential by iterating a basic elementary geometric construction over an increasing sequence of length scales they then show that a quantum particle in such a potential exhibits a subdiffusive behaviour characterised by r2 or c ln t beta if the initial state is a normalised wavepacket superposition of states of sufficiently low energy

the interband light absorption coefficient in the weak disorder regime an asymptotically exactly solvable model we consider the interband light absorption coefficient ilac for a d dimensional discrete disordered system whose hamiltonian consist of a translation invariant part d dimensional discrete laplacian and an off diagonal random part assuming that the range r of the latter is large and that its magnitude is of the order r d 2 we find that r infinity limit of the ilac we discuss some properties of the ilac in this limit its boundedness edge singularities its singular form in the limits of vanishingly translationally invariant part or infinite random part we also show that the latter property is the same for the system with a diagonal smoothly distributed disorder i e for the discrete schrodinger operator whose random potential has a smooth probability distribution this should be contrasted with the integrated density of states which is always smoother than the distribution of the random potential

localization for random schrodinger operators with correlated potentials we prove localization at high disorder or low energy for lattice schrodinger operators with random potentials whose values at different lattice sites are correlated over large distances the class of admissible random potentials for our multiscale analysis includes potentials with a stationary gaussian distribution whose covariance functionc x y decays as x y where 0 can be arbitrarily small and potentials whose probability distribution is a completely analytical gibbs measure the result for gaussian potentials depends on a multivariable form of nelson s best possible hypercontractive estimate

making almost commuting matrices commute suppose two hermitian matrices a b almost commute vert a b vert leq delta are they close to a commuting pair of hermitian matrices a b with vert a a vert vert b b vert leq epsilon a theorem of h lin 3 shows that this is uniformly true in that for every epsilon 0 there exists a 0 independent of the size n of the matrices for which almost commuting implies being close to a commuting pair however this theorem does not specify how depends on epsilon we give uniform bounds relating and epsilon the proof is constructive giving an explicit algorithm to construct a and b we provide tighter bounds in the case of block tridiagonal and tridiagonal matrices within the context of quantum measurement this implies an algorithm to construct a basis in which we can make a projective measurement that approximately measures two approximately commuting operators simultaneously finally we comment briefly on the case of approximately measuring three or more approximately commuting operators using povms positive operator valued measures instead of projective measurements

dynamical localization of quantum walks in random environments the dynamics of a one dimensional quantum walker on the lattice with two internal degrees of freedom the coin states is considered the discrete time unitary dynamics is determined by the repeated action of a coin operator in u 2 on the internal degrees of freedom followed by a one step shift to the right or left conditioned on the state of the coin for a fixed coin operator the dynamics is known to be ballistic

positive lyapunov exponents and a large deviation theorem for continuum anderson models briefly abstract in this short note we prove positivity of the lyapunov exponent for 1d continuum anderson models by leveraging some classical tools from inverse spectral theory the argument is much simpler than the existing proof due to damanik sims stolz and it covers a wider variety of random models along the way we note that a large deviation theorem holds uniformly on compacts

anderson localization for random schrodinger operators with long range interactions we prove pure point spectrum with exponentially decaying eigenfunctions at all band edges for schrodinger operators with a periodic potential plus a random potential of the form v w x q i w f x i where f decays at infinity like x m for m 4d resp m 3d depending on the regularity of f the random variables q i are supposed to be independent and identically distributed we assume that their distribution has a bounded density of compact support

finite volume fractional moment criteria for anderson localization a technically convenient signature of localization exhibited by discrete operators with random potentials is exponential decay of the fractional moments of the green function within the appropriate energy ranges known implications include spectral localization absence of level repulsion strong form of dynamical localization and a related condition which plays a significant role in the quantization of the hall conductance in two dimensional fermi gases we present a family of finite volume criteria which under some mild restrictions on the distribution of the potential cover the regime where the fractional moment decay condition holds the constructive criteria permit to establish this condition at spectral band edges provided there are sufficient lifshitz tail estimates on the density of states they are also used here to conclude that the fractional moment condition and thus the other manifestations of localization are valid throughout the regime covered by the multiscale analysis in the converse direction the analysis rules out fast power law decay of the green functions at mobility edges

scattering of a wave packet by an interval of random medium this paper deals with the scattering theory for the one dimensional discrete schrodinger equation with a random potential having large support the main result is that a fluctuation deep within the scattering region has a very small effect on the scattering of wave packets the region of random potential is effectively opaque

a supersymmetric transfer matrix and differentiability of the density of states in the one dimensional anderson model let h v on 2 z where v x 9 xez are d r v s with common probability distribution v let h t e itvdv v and let k e be the integrated density of states it is proven i if h is n times differentiable with h j t 0 l t for some 0 7 0 l n then k e is a cn function in particular if v has compact support and h t 0 l h 1 with 0 then k e is c this allows v to be singular continuous ii lfh t 0 e a tl for some 0 then k e is analytic in a strip about the real axis the proof uses the supersymmetric replica trick to rewrite the averaged green s function as a two point function of a one dimensional supersymmetric field theory which is studied by the transfer matrix method

a central limit theorem for products of random matrices and goe statistics for the anderson model on long boxes we consider products of random matrices that are small independent identically distributed perturbations of a fixed matrix mathcal t 0 focusing on the eigenvalues of mathcal t 0 of a particular size we obtain a limit to a sde in a critical scaling previous results required mathcal t 0 to be a conjugated unitary matrix so it could not have eigenvalues of different modulus from the result we can also obtain a limit sde for the markov process given by the action of the random products on the flag manifold applying the result to random schrodinger operators we can improve some results by valko and virag showing goe statistics for the rescaled eigenvalue process of a sequence of anderson models on long boxes in particular we solve a problem posed in their work

extremal theory for spectrum of random discrete schrodinger operator i asymptotic expansion formulas we consider the spectral problem for the random schrodinger operator on the multidimensional lattice torus increasing to the whole of lattice with an i i d potential anderson hamiltonian we obtain the explicit almost sure asymptotic expansion formulas for the extreme eigenvalues and eigenfunctions in the intermediate rank case provided the upper distributional tails of potential decay at infinity slower than the double exponential function for the fractional exponential tails including weibull s and gaussian distributions extremal type limit theorems for eigenvalues are proved and the strong influence of parameters of the model on a specification of normalizing constants is described in the proof we use the finite rank perturbation arguments based on the cluster expansion for resolvents

unbounded trace orbits of thue morse hamiltonian it is well known that an energy is in the spectrum of fibonacci hamiltonian if and only if the corresponding trace orbit is bounded however it is not known whether the same result holds for the thue morse hamiltonian in this paper we give a negative answer to this question more precisely we construct two subsets sigma ii and sigma iii of the spectrum of the thue morse hamiltonian both of which are dense and uncountable such that each energy in sigma ii cup sigma iii corresponds to an unbounded trace orbit exact estimates on the norm of the transfer matrices are also obtained for these energies for e in sigma ii cup sigma iii the norms of the transfer matrices behave like begin aligned e c 1 gamma sqrt n le vert t n e vert le e c 2 gamma sqrt n end aligned however two types of energies are quite different in the sense that each energy in sigma ii is associated with a two sided pseudo localized state while each energy in sigma iii is associated with a one sided pseudo localized state the difference is also reflected by the local dimensions of the spectral measure the local dimension is 0 for energies in sigma ii and is larger than 1 for energies in sigma iii as a comparison we mention another known countable dense subset sigma i each energy in sigma i corresponds to an eventually constant trace map and the associated eigenvector is an extended state in summary the thue morse hamiltonian exhibits mixed spectral nature

anderson localization for one and quasi one dimensional systems we prove almost sure exponential localization of all the eigenfunctions and nondegeneracy of the spectrum for random discrete schrodinger operators on one and quasi one dimensional lattices this paper provides a much simpler proof of these results than previous approaches and extends to a much wider class of systems we remark in particular that the singular continuous spectrum observed in some quasiperiodic systems disappears under arbitrarily small local perturbations of the potential our results allow us to prove that e g for strong disorder the smallest positive lyapunov exponent of some products of random matrices does not vanish as the size of the matrices increases to infinity

a rigorous replica trick approach to anderson localization in one dimension leth v onl2 wherev x x are i i d r v s and letg l x y e i x hl e i 1 y whereh l denotes the operatorh restricted to l l 1 l with dirichlet boundary conditions we use a supersymmetric replica trick to prove that e g l 0 x e i eta 2 leqq k eta 2 exp m log eta sigma x for somem 0 0 k uniformly inl ande this estimate together with the usual necessary estimate on the density of states implies zero conductivity and gives exponential localization by the frohlich martinelli scoppola and spencer method

the density of states in the anderson model at weak disorder a renormalization group analysis of the hierarchical model we study the density of states in a hierarchical approximation of the anderson tight binding model at weak disorder using a renormalization group approach since the laplacian term in our model is hierarchical the renormalization group transformations act essentially on the local potential distribution and the energy technically we use the supersymmetric replica trick and study the averaged green s function starting with a gaussian distribution with small variance we find that the density of states is analytic as soon as the variance of the potential is turned on except possibly near the band edge where we can show this only for 2 which corresponds tod 4 moreover it is perturbatively close to the free one except near the eigenvalues of the hierarchical laplacian where it is given up to perturbative corrections by the rescaled potential distribution

on absence of diffusion near the bottom of the spectrum for a random schrodinger operator on l 2 bf r nu we consider a random schrodinger operator onl2 v of the form h omega delta v omega v omega x sigma chi c i x q i omega ci being a covering of v with unit cubes around the sites of v and qi i i d random variables with values in 0 1 we assume that theqi s are continuously distributed with bounded densityf q and that 0 p q0 1 2 1 then we show that an ergodic mean of the quantity dx x 2 exp ith x 2 t 1 vanishes provided ge h where is well localized around the origin andge is a positivec function with support in 0 e e e f our estimate ofe f is such that the set x v v x e f may contain with probability one an infinite cluster of cubes ci which are nearest neighbours the proof is based on the technique introduced by frohlich and spencer for the analysis of the anderson model

schrodinger operators in the twentieth century this paper reviews the past fifty years of work on spectral theory and related issues in nonrelativistic quantum mechanics

disordered quantum walks in one lattice dimension we study a spin 12 particle moving on a one dimensional lattice subject to disorder induced by a random space dependent quantum coin the discrete time evolution is given by a family of random unitary quantum walk operators where the shift operation is assumed to be deterministic each coin is an independent identically distributed random variable with values in the group of two dimensional unitary matrices we derive sufficient conditions on the probability distribution of the coins such that the system exhibits dynamical localization put differently the tunneling probability between two lattice sites decays rapidly for almost all choices of random coins and after arbitrary many time steps with increasing distance our findings imply that this effect takes place if the coin is chosen at random from the haar measure or some measure continuous with respect to it but also for a class of discrete probability measures which support consists of two coins one of them being the hadamard coin

local wegner and lifshitz tails estimates for the density of states for continuous random schrodinger operators we introduce and prove local wegner estimates for continuous generalized anderson hamiltonians where the single site random variables are independent but not necessarily identically distributed in particular we get wegner estimates with a constant that goes to zero as we approach the bottom of the spectrum as an application we show that the differentiated density of states exhibits the same lifshitz tails upper bound as the integrated density of states

generalized eigenvalue counting estimates for the anderson model we generalize minami s estimate for the anderson model and its extensions to n eigenvalues allowing for n arbitrary intervals and arbitrary single site probability measures with no atoms as an application we derive new results about the multiplicity of eigenvalues and mott s formula for the ac conductivity when the single site probability distribution is holder continuous

remark on the absence of absolutely continuous spectrum for d dimensional schrodinger operators with random potential for large disorder or low energy we show that there is no absolutely continuous part in the spectrum of the anderson tight binding model for large disorder or low energy the proof is based on the exponential decay of the green s function proved by frohlich and spencer the extension of this result to the continuous case is also discussed

random composition of two rational maps singularity of the invariant measure we study the invariant measure of a markov chain obtained by randomly composing two rational maps related to the anderson model with a bernoulli potential for a certain range of the parameters we show that the invariant measure is singular continuous in certain cases the support turns out to be a cantor set with a multifractal structure

localization near the edge for the anderson bernoulli model on the two dimensional lattice we consider a hamiltonian given by the laplacian plus a bernoulli potential on the two dimensional lattice we prove that for energies sufficiently close to the edge of the spectrum the resolvent on a large square is likely to decay exponentially this implies almost sure anderson localization for energies sufficiently close to the edge of the spectrum our proof follows the program of bourgain kenig using a new unique continuation result inspired by a liouville theorem of buhovsky logunov malinnikova sodin

bootstrap multiscale analysis and localization in random media we introduce an enhanced multiscale analysis that yields subexponentially decaying probabilities for bad events for quantum and classical waves in random media we obtain exponential decay for the resolvent of the corresponding random operators in boxes of side l with probability higher than 1 e l for any 0 1 the starting hypothesis for the enhanced multiscale analysis only requires the verification of polynomial decay of the finite volume resolvent at some sufficiently large scale with probability bigger than 1 d is the dimension note that from the same starting hypothesis we get conclusions that are valid for any 0 1 this is achieved by the repeated use of a bootstrap argument as an application we use a generalized eigenfunction expansion to obtain strong dynamical localization of any order in the hilbert schmidt norm and better estimates on the behavior of the eigenfunctions

two parameter spectral averaging and localization for non monotonic random schrodinger operators we prove exponential localization at all energies for two types of one dimensional random schr6dinger operators the poisson model and the random displacement model as opposed to anderson type models these operators are not monotonic in the random parameters therefore the classical one parameter version of spectral averaging as used in localization proofs for anderson models breaks down we use the new method of two parameter spectral averaging and apply it to the poisson as well as the displacement case in addition we apply results from inverse spectral theory which show that two parameter spectral averaging works for sufficiently many energies all but a discrete set to conclude localization at all energies

smoothness of the density of states in the anderson model at high disorder we prove smoothness of the density of states in the anderson model at high disorder for a class of potential distributions that include the uniform distribution