Lifshits tails caused by anisotropic decay: The emergence of a quantum-classical regime

Mathematical Physics Analysis and Geometry

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 257-285

  Kirsch, Werner ^a   Warzel, Simone ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Integrated density of states; Lifshits tails; Random Schr dinger operators

Indexed keywords

EID: 26644432948     PISSN: 13850172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11040-005-0582-0     Document Type: Article

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