Dissipative transport in the localized regime

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• Schenker, J (Michigan State University)
• Tuesday 23 June 2015, 13:30-14:30
• Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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Periodic and Ergodic Spectral Problems

Co-author: Jrg Frhlich (ETH)

A quantum particle moving in a strongly disordered random environment is known to be subject to Anderson localization, which results in the complete suppression of transport. However, localization can be broken by a small perturbation, such as thermal noise from the environment, resulting in diffusive motion for the particle. I will discuss this phenomenon in two models in which the Schroedinger equation for a particle in the strongly localized regime is perturbed by (1) a time dependent fluctuating random potential and (2) a Lindblad operator incorporating the interaction with a heat bath in the Markov approximation. In each case, it can be proved that diffusive motion results with a strictly positive and finite diffusion constant. Furthermore, the diffusion constant tends continuously to zero at a calculable rate, as the strength of the perturbation is taken to zero. (Partially based on joint work with J. Frhlich.)

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