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The random Schr\"odinger equation: slowly decorrelating time-dependent potentials

Mathematical Physics 2015-08-10 v1 Analysis of PDEs math.MP Probability

Abstract

We analyze the weak-coupling limit of the random Schr\"odinger equation with low frequency initial data and a slowly decorrelating random potential. For the probing signal with a sufficiently long wavelength, we prove a homogenization result, that is, the properly compensated wave field admits a deterministic limit in the "very low" frequency regime. The limit is "anomalous" in the sense that the solution behaves as exp(Dts)\exp(-Dt^{s}) with s>1s>1 rather than the "usual"~exp(Dt)\exp(-Dt) homogenized behavior when the random potential is rapidly decorrelating. Unlike in rapidly decorrelating potentials, as we decrease the wavelength of the probing signal, stochasticity appears in the asymptotic limit -- there exists a critical scale depending on the random potential which separates the deterministic and stochastic regimes.

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@article{arxiv.1508.01550,
  title  = {The random Schr\"odinger equation: slowly decorrelating time-dependent potentials},
  author = {Yu Gu and Lenya Ryzhik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.01550},
  year   = {2015}
}

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21 pages

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