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We give a detailed survey of results obtained in the most recent half decade which led to a deeper understanding of the random displacement model, a model of a random Schr\"odinger operator which describes the quantum mechanics of an…
We consider a random Schro\"dinger operator in an external magnetic field. The random potential consists of delta functions of random strengths situated on the sites of a regular two-dimensional lattice. We characterize the spectrum in the…
We investigate spectral properties of a discrete random displacement model, a Schr\"odinger operator on $\ell^2(\Z^d)$ with potential generated by randomly displacing finitely supported single-site terms from the points of a sublattice of…
We prove that, for a density of disorder $\rho$ small enough, a certain class of discrete random Schr\"odinger operators on $\Z^d$ with diluted potentials exhibits a Lifschitz behaviour from the bottom of the spectrum up to energies at a…
For Schr\"odinger operator $H=-\Delta+ V({\mathbf x})\cdot$, acting in the space $L_2(\mathbb R^d)\,(d\ge 3)$, necessary and sufficient conditions for semi-boundedness and discreteness of its spectrum.are obtained without assumption that…
We study the problem of constructing $k$-spectral minimal partitions of domains in $d$ dimensions, where the energy functional to be minimized is a $p$-norm ($1 \le p \le \infty$) of the infimum of the spectrum of a suitable Schr\"odinger…
We consider a Ginzburg-Landau type energy with a piecewise constant pinning term $a$ in the potential $(a^2 - |u|^2)^2$. The function $a$ is different from 1 only on finitely many disjoint domains, called the {\it pinning domains}. These…
This paper concerns spectral properties of linear Schr\"odinger operators under oscillatory high-amplitude potentials on bounded domains. Depending on the degree of disorder, we prove the existence of spectral gaps amongst the lowermost…
We prove exponential and dynamical localization for the Schr\"odinger operator with a nonnegative Poisson random potential at the bottom of the spectrum in any dimension. We also conclude that the eigenvalues in that spectral region of…
We consider the nonlinear Schr\''odinger equation on a strip with Neumann boundary conditions and a delta condition on the $x$-axis. First, we show the existence of ground states as minimizers of the action or of the energy under suitable…
We consider random Schr\"odinger operators with Dirichlet boundary conditions outside lattice approximations of a smooth Euclidean domain and study the behavior of its lowest-lying eigenvalues in the limit when the lattice spacing tends to…
We extend methods of Ding and Smart from their breakthrough paper in 2020 which showed Anderson localization for certain random Schr\"odinger operators on $\ell^2(\mathbb{Z}^2)$ via a quantitative unique continuation principle and Wegner…
We study half-line Schr\"odinger operators with locally $H^{-1}$ potentials. In the first part, we focus on a general spectral theoretic framework for such operators, including a Last--Simon-type description of the absolutely continuous…
We establish uncertainty principles on compact Riemannian manifolds without boundary by combining restriction estimates for orthonormal systems with spectral projection bounds for Laplace-Beltrami and Schr\"odinger operators. Our results…
In this paper, we study 1-d random Schr\"odinger operators on a finite interval with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We are interested in the approximation of the ground state energy using the minimum of the effective potential. For the 1-d…
We adapt boundary deformation techniques to solve a Neumann problem for the Helmholtz equation with rough electric potentials in bounded domains. In particular, we study the dependance of Neumann eigenvalues of the perturbed Laplacian with…
We study the infimum of the spectrum, or ground state energy (g.s.e.), of a discrete Schr\"odinger operator on $\theta\mathbb{Z}^d$ parameterized by a potential $V:\mathbb{R}^d\rightarrow\mathbb{R}_{\ge 0}$ and a frequency parameter…
This paper sets out to study the spectral minimum for operator belonging to the family of random Schr\"{o}dinger operators of the form $H\_{\lambda,\omega}=-\Delta+W\_{\text{per}}+\lambda V\_{\omega}$, where we suppose that $V\_{\omega}$ is…
We consider an inverse spectral problem on a quantum graph associated with the square lattice. Assuming that the potentials on the edges are compactly supported and symmetric, we show that the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for a boundary value…