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Diffusion in the mean for a periodic Schr\"{o}dinger equation perturbed by a fluctuating potential

Mathematical Physics 2021-03-11 v2 math.MP

Abstract

We consider the evolution of a quantum particle hopping on a cubic lattice in any dimension and subject to a potential consisting of a periodic part and a random part that fluctuates stochastically in time. If the random potential evolves according to a stationary Markov process, we obtain diffusive scaling for moments of the position displacement, with a diffusion constant that grows as the inverse square of the disorder strength at weak coupling. More generally, we show that a central limit theorem holds such that the square amplitude of the wave packet converges, after diffusive rescaling, to a solution of a heat equation.

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@article{arxiv.1901.06598,
  title  = {Diffusion in the mean for a periodic Schr\"{o}dinger equation perturbed by a fluctuating potential},
  author = {Jeffrey Schenker and F. Zak Tilocco and Shiwen Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.06598},
  year   = {2021}
}

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41 pages, 1 figure