Caught by Disorder : Bound States in Random Media

Stollmann, Peter

ISBN 10: 1461266440 / ISBN 13: 9781461266440

Published by Birkhauser 2012-12, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Caught by Disorder : Bound States in Random Media
• Publisher: Birkhauser 2012-12
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1461266440
• ISBN 13: 9781461266440
• Binding: PF
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Disorder is one of the central topics in science today. Over the past 15 years various aspects of the effects of disorder have changed a number of paradigms in mathematics and physics. One such effect is a phenomenon called localization, which describes the very strange behavior of waves in random media. Instead of traveling through space as they do in ordered environments, localized waves stay in a confined region and are caught by disorder. This work is the first treatment of the subject in monograph or textbook form introducing readers to disorder in a hands-on way.

Review

"The main purpose of this book is to present, in quite an accessible way, the essence of multiscale analysis, a technique needed in proving Anderson localization, or exponential localization, for random Schrodinger-like operators acting in $L^2(\bold R^d)$. The treatise consists of four chapters, which are well arranged so as to clarify the logical structure of this hard technique. In the first chapter, after a brief introduction to the subject of disordered systems, the author summarizes some general facts on ergodic families of self-adjoint operators, such as the almost sure constancy of the spectrum. A convenient criterion is also given for the measurability of random operators obtained through closed forms. Then the author describes precisely two basic models to be treated in the sequel, which he names (P+A) and (DIV) respectively...."  (Nariyuki Minami, Mathematical Reviews)