Quantum-classical transitions in Lifshits tails with magnetic fields

Details Quantum-classical transitions in Lifshits tails with magnetic fields Quantum-classical transitions in Lifshits tails with magnetic fields

2003-10-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310389v2

shorter version in Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 (2004) 086402:1-4

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.086402

We consider Lifshits' model of a quantum particle subject to a repulsive Poissonian random potential and address various issues related to the influence of a constant magnetic field on the leading low-energy tail of the integrated density of states. In particular, we propose the magnetic analog of a $ 40 $-year-old landmark result of Lifshits for short-ranged single-impurity potentials $ U $. The Lifshits tail is shown to change its character from purely quantum, through quantum-classical, to purely classical with increasing range of $ U $. This systematics is explained by the increasing importance of the classical fluctuations of the particle's potential energy in comparison to the quantum fluctuations associated with its kinetic energy.

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