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Individual energy level distributions for one-dimensional diagonal and off-diagonal disorder

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We study the distribution of the nn-th energy level for two different one-dimensional random potentials. This distribution is shown to be related to the distribution of the distance between two consecutive nodes of the wave function. We first consider the case of a white noise potential and study the distributions of energy level both in the positive and the negative part of the spectrum. It is demonstrated that, in the limit of a large system (LL\to\infty), the distribution of the nn-th energy level is given by a scaling law which is shown to be related to the extreme value statistics of a set of independent variables. In the second part we consider the case of a supersymmetric random Hamiltonian (potential V(x)=ϕ(x)2+ϕ(x)V(x)=\phi(x)^2+\phi'(x)). We study first the case of ϕ(x)\phi(x) being a white noise with zero mean. It is in particular shown that the ground state energy, which behaves on average like expL1/3\exp{-L^{1/3}} in agreement with previous work, is not a self averaging quantity in the limit LL\to\infty as is seen in the case of diagonal disorder. Then we consider the case when ϕ(x)\phi(x) has a non zero mean value.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0004285,
  title  = {Individual energy level distributions for one-dimensional diagonal and off-diagonal disorder},
  author = {Christophe Texier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0004285},
  year   = {2009}
}

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LaTeX, 33 pages, 9 figures