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Surface Lifshits tails for random quantum Hamiltonians

Mathematical Physics 2017-04-05 v2 Analysis of PDEs math.MP Spectral Theory

Abstract

We consider Schr\"{o}dinger operators on L2(Rd)L2(R)L^{2}({\mathbb R}^{d})\otimes L^{2}({\mathbb R}^{\ell}) of the form Hω = HI+IH+Vω H_{\omega}~=~H_{\perp}\otimes I_{\parallel} + I_{\perp} \otimes {H_\parallel} + V_{\omega}, where HH_{\perp} and HH_{\parallel} are Schr\"{o}dinger operators on L2(Rd)L^{2}({\mathbb R}^{d}) and L2(R)L^{2}({\mathbb R}^{\ell}) respectively, and Vω(x,y) V_\omega(x,y) : = ξZdλξ(ω)v(xξ,y)\sum_{\xi \in {\mathbb Z}^{d}} \lambda_\xi(\omega) v(x - \xi, y), xRdx \in {\mathbb R}^d, yRy \in {\mathbb R}^\ell, is a random 'surface potential'. We investigate the behavior of the integrated density of surface states of HωH_{\omega} near the bottom of the spectrum and near internal band edges. The main result of the current paper is that, under suitable assumptions, the behavior of the integrated density of surface states of HωH_{\omega} can be read off from the integrated density of states of a reduced Hamiltonian H+WωH_{\perp}+W_{\omega} where WωW_{\omega} is a quantum mechanical average of VωV_{\omega} with respect to yRy \in {\mathbb R}^\ell. We are particularly interested in cases when HH_{\perp} is a magnetic Schr\"{o}dinger operator, but we also recover some of the results from [24] for non-magnetic HH_{\perp}.

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@article{arxiv.1602.05123,
  title  = {Surface Lifshits tails for random quantum Hamiltonians},
  author = {Werner Kirsch and Georgi Raikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.05123},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

21 pages, typos corrected

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