Anderson localization for Schrödinger operators on Z2 with quasi-periodic potential
Anderson localization for Schrödinger operators on Z2 with quasi-periodic potential
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DOI:
10.1007/bf02392795
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发表时间:
2002-03
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影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
J. Bourgain;Michael Goldstein;W. Schlag
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作者:
J. Bourgain;Michael Goldstein;W. Schlag
H=-A+ V,(1.1) where A is the discrete Laplacian on Z d and V a potential, plays a central role in quanturn mechanics. Starting with the seminal paper by P. Anderson [2], many works have been devoted to the study of families of operators with some kind of random potential. The best developed part of the theory deals with potentials given by identically distributed, independent random variables at different lattice sites. It is not our intention to present the long and rich history of this area. Rather, we merely would like to mention the fundamental work by Fr5hlich and Spencer [17], which lead to a proof of localization in [16] in all dimensions for large disorder, see also Delyon-L~ vy-Souillard [12] and Simon-Taylor Wolff [24]. More recently, a simple proof of the FrShlich-Spencer theorem was found by Aizenman and Molchanov [1], again for the case of iid, potentials. A central open problem in the random case is to show that localization occurs for any disorder in two dimensions, whereas in three and higher dimensions it is believed that there is ac spectrum for small disorders. Basic references in this field that cover the history roughly up to 1991 are Figotin-Pastur [15] and Carmona-Lacroix [11]. Some of the more recent literature is cited in [19]. Another case that has attracted considerable attention are quasi-periodic potentials. In the one-dimensional case Sinai [25] and PrShlic~ Spencer-Wittwer [18] have shown that one has pure point spectrum and exponentially decaying eigenfunctions for large disorder provided the potential is cosine-like