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We study many-body properties of quantum harmonic oscillator lattices with disorder. A sufficient condition for dynamical localization, expressed as a zero-velocity Lieb-Robinson bound, is formulated in terms of the decay of the…

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We prove the existence of extensive many-body Hamiltonians with few-body interactions and a many-body mobility edge: all eigenstates below a nonzero energy density are localized in an exponentially small fraction of "energetically allowed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-24 Chao Yin , Rahul Nandkishore , Andrew Lucas

This paper considers to the equation [\int_{S} \frac{U(Q)}{|P-Q|^{N-1}} dS(Q) = F(P), P \in S,] where the surface S is the graph of a Lipschitz function \phi on R^N, which has a small Lipschitz constant. The integral in the left-hand side…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-05-06 V. Kozlov , J. Thim , B. O. Turesson

Wave localization occurs in all types of vibrating systems, in acoustics, mechanics, optics, or quantum physics. It arises either in systems of irregular geometry (weak localization) or in disordered systems (Anderson localization). We…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-07-05 Marcel Filoche , Svitlana Mayboroda

We discuss the geometry of Laplacian eigenfunctions $-\Delta \phi = \lambda \phi$ on compact manifolds $(M,g)$ and combinatorial graphs $G=(V,E)$. The 'dual' geometry of Laplacian eigenfunctions is well understood on $\mathbb{T}^d$…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-27 Alexander Cloninger , Stefan Steinerberger

We present uniqueness and existence in weighted Sobolev spaces of the equation $$ u_t=(au_{xx}+bu_x+cu)+ \xi |u|^{1+\lambda} {\dot{B}}, \quad\,\, t>0, \, x\in (0,1) $$ with initial data $u(0,\cdot)=u_0$ and zero boundary data. Here…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-29 Beom-seok Han , Kyeong-hun Kim

We study the boundary localization phenomenon, known as whispering gallery modes, for weak solutions to semilinear Dirichlet eigenvalue problems in the unit ball $B_1 \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ ($d \geq 2$) of the form \[ \begin{cases} -\Delta…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Zhengjiang Lin

Size-invariant shape transformation is a technique of changing the shape of a domain while preserving its sizes under the Lebesgue measure. In quantum confined systems, this transformation leads to so-called quantum shape effects in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Alhun Aydin

We study phenomena where some eigenvectors of a graph Laplacian are largely confined in small subsets of the graph. These localization phenomena are similar to those generally termed Anderson Localization in the Physics literature, and are…

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Landau-damped oscillations in collisionless plasmas, described by van Kampen and Case, are quasi-modes, representing a continuous superposition of singular eigenfunctions, not true eigenmodes. Recent work by Ng et al. shows that even rare…

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We consider the eigenvalue equation for the Laplace-Beltrami operator acting on scalar functions on the non-compact Eguchi-Hanson space. The corresponding differential equation is reducible to a confluent Heun equation with Ince symbol…

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$f$-electron systems exhibit a subtle interplay between strong spin--orbit coupling and crystal-field effects, producing complex energy landscapes that are computationally demanding. We introduce auxiliary functions, constructed by…

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Let $(M,g)$ be a smooth, compact Riemannian manifold and $\{\phi_\lambda \}$ an $L^2$-normalized sequence of Laplace eigenfunctions, $-\Delta_g\phi_\lambda =\lambda^2 \phi_\lambda$. Given a smooth submanifold $H \subset M$ of codimension…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-13 Yaiza Canzani , Jeffrey Galkowski

Localization of electronic wave functions in modern two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene can impact drastically their transport and magnetic properties. The recent localization landscape (LL) theory has brought many tools and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-10-04 Luis A. Razo-López , Geoffroy J. Aubry , Marcel Filoche , Fabrice Mortessagne

In quantum theory on curved backgrounds, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is usually discussed in terms of ensemble variances and flat-space commutators. Here we take a different, preparation-based viewpoint tailored to sharp position…

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We analyze the behavior of the eigenvalues of the following non local mixed problem $\left\{ \begin{array}{rcll} (-\Delta)^{s} u &=& \lambda_1(D) \ u &\inn\Omega,\\ u&=&0&\inn D,\\ \mathcal{N}_{s}u&=&0&\inn N. \end{array}\right $ Our goal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-14 Tommaso Leonori , Maria Medina , Ireneo Peral , Ana Primo , Fernando Soria

We study the Cauchy problem for the quasilinear wave equation $ \partial^2 _t u = u^{2a} \partial^2_x u + F(u) u_x $ with $a \geq 0$ and show a result for the local in time existence under new conditions. In the previous results, it is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Yuusuke Sugiyama

For $N\geq 2$, a bounded smooth domain $\Omega$ in $\mathbb{R}^N$, and $g_0, V_0 \in L^1_{loc}(\Omega)$, we study the optimization of the first eigenvalue for the following weighted eigenvalue problem: \begin{align*} -\Delta_p \phi + V…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Nirjan Biswas , Ujjal Das , Mrityunjoy Ghosh

Some properties of $m$-density points and density-degree functions are studied. Moreover the following main results are provided: \vskip2mm \begin{itemize} \item {\it Let $\lambda$ be a continuous differential form of degree $h$ in…

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