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Sample-size dependence of the ground-state energy in a one-dimensional localization problem

arXiv:cond-mat/9512170 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.54.231

Abstract

We study the sample-size dependence of the ground-state energy in a one-dimensional localization problem, based on a supersymmetric quantum mechanical Hamiltonian with random Gaussian potential. We determine, in the form of bounds, the precise form of this dependence and show that the disorder-average ground-state energy decreases with an increase of the size of the sample as a stretched-exponential function, , where the characteristic exponent depends merely on the nature of correlations in the random potential. In the particular case where the potential is distributed as a Gaussian white noise we prove that . We also predict the value of in the general case of Gaussian random potentials with correlations.

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