the spectrum of a magnetic schrodinger operator with randomly located delta impurities we consider a single band approximation to the random schrodinger operator in an external magnetic field the spectrum of such an operator has been characterized in the case where delta impurities are located on the sites of a lattice in this paper we generalize these results by letting the delta impurities have random positions as well as strengths they are located in squares of a lattice with a general bounded distribution we characterize the entire spectrum of this operator when the magnetic field is sufficiently high we show that the whole spectrum is pure point the energy coinciding with the first landau level is infinitely degenerate and that the eigenfunctions corresponding to other landau band energies are exponentially localized

moment analysis for localization in random schrodinger operators we study localization effects of disorder on the spectral and dynamical properties of schrodinger operators with random potentials the new results include exponentially decaying bounds on the transition amplitude and related projection kernels including in the mean these are derived through the analysis of fractional moments of the resolvent which are finite due to the resonance diffusing effects of the disorder the main difficulty which has up to now prevented an extension of this method to the continuum can be traced to the lack of a uniform bound on the lifshitz krein spectral shift associated with the local potential terms the difficulty is avoided here through the use of a weak l 1 estimate concerning the boundary value distribution of resolvents of maximally dissipative operators combined with standard tools of relative compactness theory

canonical representations of complex vibratory subsystems time domain dirichlet to neumann maps large scale dynamic simulations can often be simplified by appropriately replacing large portions of the domain by a dirichlet to neumann or dtn map givoli 1992 numerical methods for problems on infinite domains 1st ed elsevier amsterdam here we consider the problem of representing a linear dynamical subsystem by such a map the exact dtn map is computed as a modal summation and its properties are studied bounds on the symbol of the dtn map in the laplace domain are obtained the exact map is then approximated in particular in the high modal density regime in the high modal density limit we obtain the result that a subsystem can be accurately represented with just three parameters within such an approximation we obtain representations based on a maximum entropy representation self similar or fractal representation and a rational function representation the rational function representation leads to the interesting result that any complicated dynamical subsystem with a large number of degrees of freedom is asymptotically equivalent in the limit of infinite modal density to a single mass dashpot spring system we end with numerical examples showing the efficiency of the rational function approximation

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

singular continuous spectrum is generic in a variety of contexts we prove that singular continuous spectrum is generic in the sense that for certain natural complete metric spaces of operators those with singular spectrum are a dense g delta

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

exponential decay of green s functions for a class of long range hamiltonians we consider a class of long range hamiltonians with diagonal disorder onl2 z for anyergodic potentialv with non empty essential range we prove the exponential decay of the green s functions for energies in the essential range ifv is independent identically distributed we obtain the exponential decay of the green s functions for all coupling constant 0 moreover the hamiltonian has only pure point spectrum

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

localization in general one dimensional random systems i jacobi matrices we consider random discrete schrodinger operators in a strip with a potentialv n n a label in and a finite label across the strip andv an ergodic process we prove thath0 v has only point spectrum with probability one under two assumptions 1 theconditional distribution of v n n 0 1 all conditioned on v n 0 1 all has an absolutely continuous component with positive probability 2 for a e e no lyaponov exponent is zero

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

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

franco american meeting on the mathematics of random and almost periodic potentials we present the abstracts of papers given at a conference held at the ecole polytechnique in june 1983 on the mathematics of random and almost periodic potentials

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

localization for off diagonal disorder and for continuous schrodinger operators we extend the proof of localization by delyon levy and souillard to accommodate the anderson model with off diagonal disorder and the continuous schrodinger equation with a random potential

the quantum hall effect for electrons in a random potential we assume the existence of sufficiently localised states near the edges of each landau band we then prove that the hall conductivity is quantised and the parallel conductivity vanishes when the filling factor stays close to an integer the hall integer is a topological invariant given by the landau band index

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

the schrodinger equation with a quasi periodic potential we consider the schrodinger equation dx2 v e cosx cos cix 0 v eqi where e is small and a satisfies the diophantine inequality lp qcl c q2 forp qez q 0 we look for solutions of the form ikx ikx in x im ax 0 m x e q x e 2m ne inxne e if we try to solve for v v mn we are led to the schrodinger equation on the lattice z2 h k q ba v k q en where a is the discrete laplacian without diagonal terms and v k is some 2 potential on z we have two main results 4 for e sufficiently small h k has pure point spectrum for almost every k 2 for e sufficiently small the operator d dx 2 e cosx cos ax has no point spectrum to prove our results we must get decay estimates on the green s function e h 1 the decay of the eigenfunction follows from this in general we must keep track of small divisors which can make the green s function large this is accomplished by a kam kolmogorov arnold moser type of multiscale perturbation analysis

cell to cell scaling approach to the dielectric breakdown model a new ansatz is proposed to implement finite size scaling analysis of the dielectric breakdown model calculations on very small cells already allow to obtain good qualitative determinations of the fractal dimensions d in a wide range of dimensionalities and model parameters exact enumerations or high accuracy monte carlo calculations on larger cells si2 x 12 in d 2 show a remarkable degree of convergence towards values known from large scale simulations for d and to a lesser extent for the multifractal dimension d q with qa i general difficulties inherent to monte carlo determinations of d q for negative q are also pointed out for calculating the electrostatic potential inside these cells we use a new exact and fast algorithm explained in detail in the appendix

perturbation theory for periodic orbits in a class of infinite dimensional hamiltonian systems we consider a class of hamiltonian systems describing an infinite array of coupled anharmonic oscillators and we study the bifurcation of periodic orbits off the equilibrium point the family of orbits we construct can be parametrized by their periods which belong to cantor sets of large measure containing certain periods of the linearized problem as accumulation points the infinitely many holes forming a dense set on which the existence of a periodic orbit cannot be proven originate from a dense set of resonances that are present in the system we also have a result concerning the existence of solutions of arbitrarily large amplitude

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

some rigorous results for random and quasi periodic potentials abstract we review some mathematical results and conjectures for random and quasi periodic schrodinger operators the role of localization in certain nonlinear systems is also discussed in addition we present some general arguments which show that the correlation length exponent v 2 d for a wide class of d dimensional random systems including the dilute ising ferro magnet

anomalous thermostat and intraband discrete breathers abstract we investigate the dynamics of a macroscopic system which consists of an anharmonic subsystem embedded in an arbitrary harmonic lattice including quenched disorder the coupling between both parts is bilinear elimination of the harmonic degrees of freedom leads to a nonlinear langevin equation with memory kernels t and noise term t for the anharmonic coordinates q t q t for zero temperature i e for t 0 we prove that the support of the fourier transform of t and of the time averaged velocity velocity correlation functions k t of the anharmonic system cannot overlap as a consequence the asymptotic solutions can be constant periodic quasiperiodic or almost periodic and possibly weakly chaotic for a sinusoidal trajectory q t with frequency we find that the energy e t transferred to the harmonic system up to time t is proportional to t if equals one of the phonon frequencies it is 2 we prove that there is a zero measure set l such that for in its full measure complement r l it is 0 i e there is no energy dissipation under certain conditions l contains a subset l such that for l the dissipation rate is nonzero and may be subdissipative 0 1 or superdissipative 1 2 compared to ordinary dissipation 1 consequently the harmonic bath does act as an anomalous thermostat in variance with the common belief that elimination of a macroscopically large number of degrees of freedom always generates dissipation forcing convergence to equilibrium intraband discrete breathers are such solutions which do not relax we prove for arbitrary anharmonicity and small but finite coupling that intraband discrete breathers with frequency exist for all in a cantor set c k of finite lebesgue measure this is achieved by estimating the contribution of small denominators appearing for g t related to t for c k the small denominators do not lead to divergencies such that g t is a smooth and bounded function in t

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

asymptotic localization of stationary states in the nonlinear schrodinger equation the mapping of the nonlinear schrodinger equation with a random potential on the fokker planck equation is used to calculate the localization length of its stationary states the asymptotic growth rates of the moments of the wave function and its derivative for the linear schrodinger equation in a random potential are computed analytically and resummation is used to obtain the corresponding growth rate for the nonlinear schrodinger equation and the localization length of the stationary states

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 in general one dimensional random systems we discuss two ways of extending the recent ideas of localization from discrete schrodinger operators jacobi matrices to the continuum case one case allows us to prove localization in the goldshade molchanov pastur model for a larger class of functions than previously the other method studies the model v wherev is a random constant in each hyper cube we extend wegner s result on the lipschitz nature of the ids to this model

on the spectrum of schrodinger operators with a random potential we investigate the spectrum of schrodinger operatorsh of the type h qi f x xi i qi and i independent identically distributed random variables i d we establish a strong connection between the spectrum ofh and the spectra of deterministic periodic schrodinger operators from this we derive a condition for the existence of forbidden zones in the spectrum ofh for random one and three dimensional kronig penney potentials the spectrum is given explicitly

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

a localization principle for multiplicative perturbations abstract a certain resolvent estimate implies point spectrum for discrete linear wave equations with random local propagation speed the significance of point spectrum in this context is that scattering within a random medium produces only localized standing waves the implication is derived from a general result about multiplicative perturbations of a self adjoint operator the estimate implies point spectrum for almost every value of the perturbation parameter

anderson localization and the space time characteristic of continuum states a proof of anderson localization is obtained by ruling out any continuous spectrum on the basis of the space time characteristic of its states

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

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

one dimensional schrodinger operators with random or deterministic potentials new spectral types abstract we prove sufficient conditions involving only potential asymptotic near one of the infinities in order to have purely absolutely continuous components in the spectrum these deterministic results are then applied to random cases and exhibit classes of models for which with probability one one component of the spectrum is purely absolutely continuous and the rest is dense pure point with exponentially decaying eigenfunctions