Quantum Diffusion and Delocalization for Band Matrices with General Distribution

Abstract

We consider Hermitian and symmetric random band matrices $H$ in $d\ge 1$ dimensions. The matrix elements $H_{xy}$, indexed by $x,y\in \Lambda \subset {\mathbb{Z}}^d$, are independent and their variances satisfy $σ_{xy}^2:=\E \abs{H_{xy}}^2 = W^{-d} f((x - y)/W)$ for some probability density $f$. We assume that the law of each matrix element $H_{xy}$ is symmetric and exhibits subexponential decay. We prove that the time evolution of a quantum particle subject to the Hamiltonian $H$ is diffusive on time scales $t\ll W^{d/3}$. We also show that the localization length of the eigenvectors of $H$ is larger than a factor $W^{d/6}$ times the band width $W$. All results are uniform in the size $\absΛ$ of the matrix. This extends our recent result \cite{erdosknowles} to general band matrices. As another consequence of our proof we show that, for a larger class of random matrices satisfying ${\sum }_x{\sigma }_{xy}^2=1$ for all $y$, the largest eigenvalue of $H$ is bounded with high probability by $2+M^{-2/3+\epsilon }$ for any $\epsilon >0$, where $M \deq 1 / (\max_{x,y} σ_{xy}^2)$.

Corrected typos and some inaccuracies in appendix C

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