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A new KAM-style proof of Anderson localization is obtained. A sequence of local rotations is defined, such that off-diagonal matrix elements of the Hamiltonian are driven rapidly to zero. This leads to the first proof via multi-scale…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-11 John Z. Imbrie

In this paper, we study the quasi-periodic operators $H_{\epsilon,\omega}(x)$: $$(H_{\epsilon,\omega}(x)\vec{\psi})_n=\epsilon\sum_{k\in\mathbb{Z}}W_k\vec{\psi}_{n-k}+V(x+n\omega)\vec{\psi}_n,$$ where…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-07 Wenwen Jian , Yunfeng Shi , Xiaoping Yuan

We propose a new method to prove Anderson localization for quasiperiodic Schr\"odinger operators and apply it to the quasiperiodic model considered by Sinai and Fr\"ohlich-Spencer-Wittwer. More concretely, we prove Anderson localization for…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Lingrui Ge , Jiangong You , Xin Zhao

It is classical, following Furstenberg's theorem on positive Lyapunov exponent for products of random SL$(2, \mathbb R)$ matrices, that the one dimensional random Schr\"odinger operator has Anderson localization at arbitrary disorder. This…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-01-04 Wencai Liu , W. -M. Wang

We consider discrete one-dimensional Schr\"odinger operators with random potentials obtained via a block code applied to an i.i.d. sequence of random variables. It is shown that, almost surely, these operators exhibit spectral and dynamical…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-14 David Damanik , Anton Gorodetski , Victor Kleptsyn

We consider quasiperiodic operators on $\mathbb Z^d$ with unbounded monotone sampling functions ("Maryland-type"), which are not required to be strictly monotone and are allowed to have flat segments. Under several geometric conditions on…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Ilya Kachkovskiy , Stanislav Krymski , Leonid Parnovski , Roman Shterenberg

We first study the discrete Schr\"odinger equations with analytic potentials given by a class of transformations. It is shown that if the coupling number is large, then its logarithm equals approximately to the Lyapunov exponents. When the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-05-02 Kai Tao

We consider discrete Schr\"odinger operators on $\ell^2(\mathbb{Z})$ with bounded random but not necessarily identically distributed values of the potential. We prove spectral localization (with exponentially decaying eigenfunctions) as…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Anton Gorodetski , Victor Kleptsyn

In this paper, we prove H\"older continuity of the integrated density of states for discrete quasiperiodic Jacobi $d\times d$ block matrices with Diophantine frequencies. The H\"older exponent is shown to be any $\beta$ such that…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Rui Han , Wilhelm Schlag

We establish the Anderson localization and exponential dynamical localization for a class of quasi-periodic Schr\"odinger operators on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ with bounded or unbounded Lipschitz monotone potentials via multi-scale analysis based on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Hongyi Cao , Yunfeng Shi , Zhifei Zhang

Localization of electronic states in disordered thin layered systems with b layers is studied within the Anderson model of localization using the transfer-matrix method and finite-size scaling of the inverse of the smallest Lyapunov…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Z. Cerovski , R. K. Brojen Singh , M. Schreiber

We consider a system of two discrete quasiperiodic 1D particles as an operator on $\ell^2(\mathbb Z^2)$ and establish Anderson localization at large disorder, assuming the potential has no cosine-type symmetries. In the presence of…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Jean Bourgain , Ilya Kachkovskiy

We establish large sets of Anderson localized states for the quasi-periodic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on $\mathbb Z^d$, thus extending Anderson localization from the linear (cf. Bourgain [Geom. Funct. Anal., 17(3):682--706, 2007]) to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Yunfeng Shi , W. -M. Wang

In this paper we prove Anderson localization for multi-frequency quasi-periodic extended CMV matrices with analytic Verblunsky coefficients in the regime of positive Lyapunov exponents. By constructing a suitable semialgebraic set and…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Bei Zhang , Daxiong Piao

This paper considers the family of Schr\"odinger operators on $\ell^2(\mathbb{Z})$ given by independent but not necessarily identically distributed and possibly unbounded potentials. We assume a finite exponential moment and allow the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Karl Zieber

We develop direct and inverse scattering theory for Jacobi operators which are short range perturbations of quasi-periodic finite-gap operators. We show existence of transformation operators, investigate their properties, derive the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Iryna Egorova , Johanna Michor , Gerald Teschl

We use scattering theoretic methods to prove strong dynamical and exponential localization for one dimensional, continuum, Anderson-type models with singular distributions; in particular the case of a Bernoulli distribution is covered. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-12-30 David Damanik , Robert Sims , Günter Stolz

We consider a class of ensembles of lattice Schr\"odinger operators with deterministic random potentials, including quasi-periodic potentials with Diophantine frequencies, depending upon an infinite number of parameters in an auxiliary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-04-07 Victor Chulaevsky

We study the ground states of the one-dimensional non-self-adjoint Jacobi operators in the almost periodic media by using the method of dynamical systems. We show the existence of the ground state. Particularly, in the quasi-periodic media,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Xing Liang , Honngze Wang , Qi Zhou

The Lyapunov exponent, serving as an indicator of the localized state, is commonly utilized to identify localization transitions in disordered systems. In non-Hermitian quasicrystals, the non-Hermitian effect induced by non-reciprocal…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-10-22 Shan-Zhong Li , Enhong Cheng , Shi-Liang Zhu , Zhi Li