Anderson localization and Lifshits tails for random surface potentials

Journal of Functional Analysis

Volumn 230, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 222-250

  Kirsch, Werner ^a   Warzel, Simone ^b,c  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lifshits tails; Localization; Partially periodic operators; Random Schr dinger operators; Surface states

Indexed keywords

EID: 28644449428     PISSN: 00221236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfa.2005.05.009     Document Type: Article

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