Individual energy level distributions for one-dimensional diagonal and off-diagonal disorder
Abstract
We study the distribution of the -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 (), the distribution of the -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 ). We study first the case of being a white noise with zero mean. It is in particular shown that the ground state energy, which behaves on average like in agreement with previous work, is not a self averaging quantity in the limit as is seen in the case of diagonal disorder. Then we consider the case when 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}
}
Comments
LaTeX, 33 pages, 9 figures