TY - JOUR
T1 - Quantum Harmonic Oscillator Systems with Disorder
AU - Nachtergaele, Bruno
AU - Sims, Robert
AU - Stolz, Günter
N1 - Funding Information:
B.N. was supported in part by NSF grant DMS-1009502. R.S. was supported in part by NSF grants DMS-0757424 and DMS-1101345. G.S. was supported in part by NSF grant DMS-1069320.
PY - 2012/12
Y1 - 2012/12
N2 - 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 eigenfunction correlators for an effective one-particle Hamiltonian. We show how state-of-the-art techniques for proving Anderson localization can be used to prove that these properties hold in a number of standard models. We also derive bounds on the static and dynamic correlation functions at both zero and positive temperature in terms of one-particle eigenfunction correlators. In particular, we show that static correlations decay exponentially fast if the corresponding effective one-particle Hamiltonian exhibits localization at low energies, regardless of whether there is a gap in the spectrum above the ground state or not. Our results apply to finite as well as to infinite oscillator systems. The eigenfunction correlators that appear are more general than those previously studied in the literature. In particular, we must allow for functions of the Hamiltonian that have a singularity at the bottom of the spectrum. We prove exponential bounds for such correlators for some of the standard models.
AB - 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 eigenfunction correlators for an effective one-particle Hamiltonian. We show how state-of-the-art techniques for proving Anderson localization can be used to prove that these properties hold in a number of standard models. We also derive bounds on the static and dynamic correlation functions at both zero and positive temperature in terms of one-particle eigenfunction correlators. In particular, we show that static correlations decay exponentially fast if the corresponding effective one-particle Hamiltonian exhibits localization at low energies, regardless of whether there is a gap in the spectrum above the ground state or not. Our results apply to finite as well as to infinite oscillator systems. The eigenfunction correlators that appear are more general than those previously studied in the literature. In particular, we must allow for functions of the Hamiltonian that have a singularity at the bottom of the spectrum. We prove exponential bounds for such correlators for some of the standard models.
KW - Correlation decay
KW - Dynamical localization
KW - Harmonic oscillator systems
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U2 - 10.1007/s10955-012-0652-1
DO - 10.1007/s10955-012-0652-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84871267355
SN - 0022-4715
VL - 149
SP - 969
EP - 1012
JO - Journal of Statistical Physics
JF - Journal of Statistical Physics
IS - 6
ER -