on probabilistic φ contractions on menger spaces abstract recently ciric lj b ciric solving the banach fixed point principle for nonlinear contractions in probabilistic metric spaces nonlinear anal 72 2010 2009 2018 obtained a fixed point theorem with the intention to get a probabilistic version of the boyd wong theorem d w boyd j s w wong on nonlinear contractions proc amer math soc 20 1969 458 464 we give a counterexample to the key lemma of ciric and we establish a corrected version of his main theorem we also discuss the relations between our result and fixed point theorems of browder f e browder on the convergence of successive approximations for nonlinear functional equations nederl akad wetensch proc ser a 71 indag math 30 1968 27 35 and matkowski j matkowski integrable solutions of functional equations dissertationes math rozprawy mat 127 1975 68 pp

non perturbative anderson localization in heavy tailed potentials via large deviations moment analysis we study a class of anderson hamiltonians with heavy tailed independent and identically distributed random potential on graphs with sub exponential growth of the balls and of the number of self avoiding paths connecting pairs of points we show that for a class of marginal distributions anderson localization occurs non perturbatively i e for any nonzero amplitude of the potential like in one dimensional systems the proof is based on the moment analysis of the green functions via large deviations estimates

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

localization phenomenon in gaps of the spectrum of random lattice operators we consider a class of random lattice operators including schrodinger operators of the formh w gv wherew x is a real valued periodic function g is a positive constant andv x x d are independent identically distributed real random variables we prove that if the operator w has gaps in the spectrum andg is sufficiently small then the operatorh develops pure point spectrum with exponentially decaying eigenfunctions in a vicinity of the gaps

localization criteria for anderson models on locally finite graphs we prove spectral and dynamical localization for anderson models on locally finite graphs using the fractional moment method our theorems extend earlier results on localization for the anderson model on d we establish geometric assumptions for the underlying graph such that localization can be proven in the case of sufficiently large disorder

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

absence of phase transitions for continuum models of dimension d 1 examples of grand canonical continuum models are given in rd or a suitable subset of rd for which no multiple phases exist

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

a new proof of localization in the anderson tight binding model we give a new proof of exponential localization in the anderson tight binding model which uses many ideas of the frohlich martinelli scoppola and spencer proof but is technically simpler particularly the probabilistic estimates

localization and universality of poisson statistics for the multidimensional anderson model at weak disorder we prove anderson localization with the mean field lyapunov exponent and poisson statistics for eigenvalue spacing for the multi dimensional anderson model at weak disorder these results are obtained by developing the supersymmetric formalism initiated in w1 see also sjw rid

first order phase transitions in lattice and continuous systems extension of pirogov sinai theory we generalize the notion of ground states in the pirogov sinai theory of first order phase transitions at low temperatures applicable to lattice systems with a finite number of periodic ground states to that of restricted ensembles with equal free energies a restricted ensemble is a gibbs ensemble i e equilibrium probability measure on a restricted set of configurations in the phase space of the system when a restricted ensemble contains only one configuration it coincides with a ground state in the more general case the entropy is also important

anderson localization for generic deterministic operators abstract we consider a class of ensembles of lattice schrodinger operators with deterministic potentials including quasi periodic potentials with diophantine frequencies depending upon an infinite number of parameters in an auxiliary measurable space using a variant of the multi scale analysis we prove anderson localization for generic ensembles in the strong disorder regime and establish an analog of minami type bounds for spectral spacings

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

localization for random and quasiperiodic potentials a survey is made of some recent mathematical results and techniques for schrodinger operators with random and quasiperiodic potentials a new proof of localization for random potentials established in collaboration with h von dreifus is sketched

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

fixed point theorems for multivalued mappings in probabilistic metric spaces abstract in this paper we prove a fixed point theorem for multivalued mappings in probabilistic metric spaces some applications in fuzzy metric and random normed spaces are given

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

solving the banach fixed point principle for nonlinear contractions in probabilistic metric spaces abstract the probabilistic version of the classical banach contraction principle was proved in 1972 by sehgal and bharucha reid v m sehgal a t bharucha reid fixed points of contraction mappings on pm spaces math syst theory 6 97 102 their fixed point theorem is further generalized by many authors in the intervening years many others have proved the probabilistic versions of the other known metric fixed point theorems however the problem to prove the probabilistic versions of the very important generalization of the banach contraction principle obtained in 1969 by boyd and wong d w boyd j s w wong on nonlinear contractions proc am math soc 20 1969 458 464 who proved the fixed point theorem for a self mapping of a metric space satisfying the very general nonlinear contractive condition is unsolved in these days similarly as in the metric space case to prove a fixed point theorem for a mapping satisfying the general probabilistic nonlinear contractive condition it was necessary to find a new approach substantially different from the previous technique for cases where a mapping satisfies the probabilistic linear contraction condition introduced by sehgal and bharucha reid and further used by many authors so the problem to obtain a truthful probabilistic version of the banach fixed point principle for general nonlinear contractions existed unsolved for over 35 years we have solved this problem in this paper

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

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

a note on probabilistic φ contractions in menger spaces abstract in this note we prove that each probabilistic e contraction in a complete menger space x f with of h type is a picard mapping where 0 0 be a function with the properties i 0 1 0 1 ii for each t 0 there exists r t such that lim n n r 0 as a consequence we answer an open question raised by mihet and zaharia affirmatively

on contractions in probabilistic and fuzzy metric spaces in this paper by means of weakening conditions of the gauge function a new fixed point theorem for probabilistic contraction in menger probabilistic metric spaces with a t norm of h type is established this theorem improves and generalizes the recent results of iric 2010 4 jachymski 2010 12 and xiao et al 2013 25 by using the theorem we also obtain some important corollaries and the fixed point theorems for contraction in fuzzy metric spaces

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

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

graded cluster expansion for lattice systems in this paper we develop a general theory which provides a unified treatment of two apparently different problems the weak gibbs property of measures arising from the application of renormalization group maps and the mixing properties of disordered lattice systems in the griffiths phase we suppose that the system satisfies a mixing condition in a subset of the lattice whose complement is sparse enough namely large regions are widely separated we then show how it is possible to construct a convergent multi scale cluster expansion

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

localization of classical waves ii electromagnetic waves we consider electromagnetic waves in a medium described by a position dependent dielectric constant we assume that is a random perturbation of a periodic function and that the periodic maxwell operator has a gap in the spectrum where we prove the existence of localized waves i e finite energy solutions of maxwell s equations with the property that almost all of the wave s energy remains in a fixed bounded region of space at all times localization of electromagnetic waves is a consequence of anderson localization for the self adjoint operators we prove that in the random medium described by the random operator exhibits anderson localization inside the gap in the spectrum of this is shown even in situations when the gap is totally filled by the spectrum of the random operator we can prescribe random environments that ensure localization in almost the whole gap

critical points and intermediate phases on wedges of zd the authors examine the phase structure of self avoiding walks the ising magnet and bond percolation defined on subsets of zd d or 2 which have the geometry of wedges they prove that if the cross sectional area of the wedge diverges with its width then the high temperature critical point of any of these models defined on the wedge coincides with that of the corresponding model on the full lattice for the ising magnet and bond percolation they show that there is a non trivial low temperature critical point if the cross sectional area of the wedge diverges logarithmically with its width moreover for bond percolation they show that the low temperature critical point of a logarithmic wedge may be made arbitrarily close to that of the full lattice by taking the coefficient of the logarithm large enough corollaries to these theorems include the existence of an intermediate phase for the ising magnet and bond percolation on logarithmic wedges and the existence of a first order transition for percolation models on a subclass of these wedges

eigenvalue statistics for lattice hamiltonian with off diagonal disorder this short note deals with a certain kind of lattice hamiltonian with off diagonal disorder based on the exponential decay of the fractional moment of the green function we are able to prove that the properly rescaled eigenvalues of the random hamiltonian are distributed as a poisson point process with intensity measure given by the density of states one of the key step in this proof is the minami type estimate as a crucial ingredient we also use the minami type estimate to study some important properties of the random hamiltonian such as multiplicity of the eigenvalues and quantitative estimate of the localization centers

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

an eigensystem approach to anderson localization abstract we introduce a new approach for proving localization pure point spectrum with exponentially decaying eigenfunctions dynamical localization for the anderson model at high disorder in contrast to the usual strategy we do not study finite volume green s functions instead we perform a multiscale analysis based on finite volume eigensystems eigenvalues and eigenfunctions information about eigensystems at a given scale is used to derive information about eigensystems at larger scales this eigensystem multiscale analysis treats all energies of the finite volume operator at the same time establishing level spacing and localization of eigenfunctions in a fixed box with high probability a new feature is the labeling of the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions by the sites of the box

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

localization of classical waves i acoustic waves we consider classical acoustic waves in a medium described by a position dependent mass density x we assume that x is a reandom perturbation of a periodic function 0 x and that the periodic acoustic operator a 0 nabla cdot tfrac 1 varrho 0 x nabla has a gap in the spectrum we prove the existence of localized waves i e finite energy solutions of the acoustic equations with the property that almost all of the wave s energy remains in a fixed bounded region of space at all times with probability one localization of acoustic waves is a consequence of anderson localization for the self adjoint operators a nabla cdot tfrac 1 varrho 0 x nabla onl2 d we prove that in the random medium described by x the random operatora exhibits anderson localization inside the gap in the spectrum ofa0 this is shown even in situations when the gap is totally filled by the spectrum of the random opertor we can prescribe random environments that ensure localization in almost the whole gap

on probabilistic ψ contractions in menger probabilistic metric spaces abstract in this paper we prove some equivalence for probabilistic contractions in menger probabilistic metric spaces by which we answer open question 3 in mihet and zaharia 2016 11 affirmatively

upper bound on the energy gap in terms of the localization in tight binding systems we present an upper bound on the energy gap above the ground energy in terms of the variance of the particle position in one particle tight binding systems our inequality gives a complementary relationship between the energy gap and the localization of the particle that is the energy gap narrows as the ground state spreads spatially while the energy gap can broaden as the ground state becomes localized we first consider the ground state in one dimensional tight binding systems and relate the energy gap to the variance of the particle position in the ground state we then extend the result to higher dimensional systems we compare our upper bound with the exact energy gap as calculated numerically in one and two dimensions this comparison confirms that our upper bound places a tight restriction on the energy gap

on mott s formula for the ac conductivity in the anderson model we study the ac conductivity in linear response theory in the general framework of ergodic magnetic schrodinger operators for the anderson model if the fermi energy lies in the localization regime we prove that the ac conductivity is bounded from above by c 2 log 1 d 2 at small frequencies this is to be compared to mott s formula which predicts the leading term to be c 2 log 1 d 1

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

simplicity of eigenvalues in the anderson model we give a transparent and intuitive proof that all eigenvalues of the anderson model in the region of localization are simple

localization for some continuous random schrodinger operators we study the spectrum of random schrodinger operators acting onl2 r d of the following type h delta w sum x in mathbb z d t x v x the t x x in mathbb z d are i i d random variables under weak assumptions onv we prove exponential localization forh at the lower edge of its spectrum in order to do this we give a new proof of the wegner estimate that works without sign assumptions onv

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

on probabilistic φ contractions in menger spaces abstract in this note we show that the fixed point theorems given for menger spaces by j jachymski 2010 5 theorem 1 and j x fang 2015 2 theorem 3 1 are equivalent

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

diffusion in the mean for an ergodic schrodinger equation perturbed by a fluctuating potential diffusive scaling of position moments and a central limit theorem are obtained for the mean position of a quantum particle hopping on a cubic lattice and subject to a random potential consisting of a large static part and a small part that fluctuates stochastically in time if the static random potential is strong enough to induce complete localization in the absence of time dependent noise then the diffusion constant is shown to go to zero proportional to the square of the strength of the time dependent part

on some classes of nonlinear contractions in probabilistic metric spaces motivated by a question in j x fang 2015 6 we investigate the existence of fixed points for several classes of probabilistic contractions under fang type conditions