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The delocalized phase of the Anderson Hamiltonian in $1$-d

Probability 2021-02-22 v2 Statistical Mechanics Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We introduce a random differential operator, that we call the CSτ\mathtt{CS}_\tau operator, whose spectrum is given by the \mboxSchτ\mbox{Sch}_\tau point process introduced by Kritchevski, Valk\'o and Vir\'ag (2012) and whose eigenvectors match with the description provided by Rifkind and Vir\'ag (2018). This operator acts on R2\mathbf{R}^2-valued functions from the interval [0,1][0,1] and takes the form: 2(0tt0)+τ(dB+12dW112dW212dW2dB12dW1), 2 \begin{pmatrix} 0 & -\partial_t \\ \partial_t & 0 \end{pmatrix} + \sqrt{\tau} \begin{pmatrix} d\mathcal{B} + \frac1{\sqrt 2} d\mathcal{W}_1 & \frac1{\sqrt 2} d\mathcal{W}_2\\ \frac1{\sqrt 2} d\mathcal{W}_2 & d\mathcal{B} - \frac1{\sqrt 2} d\mathcal{W}_1\end{pmatrix}\,, where dBd\mathcal{B}, dW1d\mathcal{W}_1 and dW2d\mathcal{W}_2 are independent white noises. Then, we investigate the high part of the spectrum of the Anderson Hamiltonian HL:=t2+dB\mathcal{H}_L := -\partial_t^2 + dB on the segment [0,L][0,L] with white noise potential dBdB, when LL\to\infty. We show that the operator HL\mathcal{H}_L, recentred around energy levels EL/τE \sim L/\tau and unitarily transformed, converges in law as LL\to\infty to CSτ\mathtt{CS}_\tau in an appropriate sense. This allows to answer a conjecture of Rifkind and Vir\'ag (2018) on the behavior of the eigenvectors of HL\mathcal{H}_L. Our approach also explains how such an operator arises in the limit of HL\mathcal{H}_L. Finally we show that at higher energy levels, the Anderson Hamiltonian matches (asymptotically in LL) with the unperturbed Laplacian t2-\partial_t^2. In a companion paper, it is shown that at energy levels much smaller than LL, the spectrum is localized with Poisson statistics: the present paper therefore identifies the delocalized phase of the Anderson Hamiltonian.

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@article{arxiv.2102.05393,
  title  = {The delocalized phase of the Anderson Hamiltonian in $1$-d},
  author = {Laure Dumaz and Cyril Labbé},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.05393},
  year   = {2021}
}

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