Published March 2003 | Version v1
Journal article

Critical energies in random palindrome models

  • 1. Depto de Matematica Aplicada - UEL, CP 6001, Londrina, PR, 86051-970 (Brazil) and Departamento de Matematica - UFSCar, Sao Carlos, SP, 13560-970 Brazil (BR)

Description

We investigate the occurrence of critical energies - where the Lyapunov exponent vanishes--in random Schroedinger operators when the potentials have some local order, which we call random palindrome models. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the presence of such critical energies: the commutativity of finite word elliptic transfer matrices. Finally, we perform some numerical calculations of the Lyapunov exponents showing their behavior near the critical energies and the respective time evolution of an initially localized wave packet, obtaining the exponent ruling the algebraic growth of the second momentum. We also consider special random palindrome models with one-letter bounded gap property; the transport effects of such long range order are showed numerically

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Mathematical Physics
Journal Volume
44
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 945-961
ISSN
0022-2488
CODEN
JMAPAQ

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
35004624
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
LYAPUNOV METHOD; MATHEMATICAL LOGIC; MATRICES; POLYNOMIALS; RANDOMNESS; SCHROEDINGER EQUATION; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; WAVE PACKETS
Descriptors DEC
CALCULATION METHODS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; FUNCTIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; WAVE EQUATIONS

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(c) 2003 American Institute of Physics.