Breaking supersymmetry in a one-dimensional random Hamiltonian
Abstract
The one-dimensional supersymmetric random Hamiltonian , where is a Gaussian white noise of zero mean and variance , presents particular spectral and localization properties at low energy: a Dyson singularity in the integrated density of states (IDoS) and a delocalization transition related to the behaviour of the Lyapunov exponent (inverse localization length) vanishing like as . We study how this picture is affected by breaking supersymmetry with a scalar random potential: where is a Gaussian white noise of variance . In the limit , a fraction of states migrate to the negative spectrum and the Lyapunov exponent reaches a finite value at E=0. Exponential (Lifshits) tail of the IDoS for is studied in detail and is shown to involve a competition between the two noises and whatever the larger is. This analysis relies on analytic results for and obtained by two different methods: a stochastic method and the replica method. The problem of extreme value statistics of eigenvalues is also considered (distribution of the n-th excited state energy). The results are analyzed in the context of classical diffusion in a random force field in the presence of random annihilation/creation local rates.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0805.2883,
title = {Breaking supersymmetry in a one-dimensional random Hamiltonian},
author = {Christian Hagendorf and Christophe Texier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.2883},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
33 pages, LaTeX, 13 eps figures ; 2nd version : refs. added