We study spectral properties of a system of two quantum particles on an integer lattice with a bounded short-range two-body interaction, in an external random potential field $V(x,ω)$ with independent, identically distributed values. The main result is that if the common probability density $f$ of random variables $V(x,ω)$ is analytic in a strip around the real line and the amplitude constant $g$ is large enough (i.e. the system is at high disorder), then, with probability one, the spectrum of the two-particle lattice Schroedinger operator $H(ω)$ (bosonic or fermionic) is pure point, and all eigen-functions decay exponentially. The proof given in this paper is based on a refinement of a multiscale analysis (MSA) scheme proposed by von Dreifus and Klein, adapted to incorporate lattice systems with interaction.
In 1990, Klein, Lacroix, and Speis proved (spectral) Anderson localisation for the Anderson model on the strip of width $W \geqslant 1$, allowing for singular distribution of the potential. Their proof employs multi-scale analysis, in addition to arguments from the theory of random matrix products (the case of regular distributions was handled earlier in the works of Goldsheid and Lacroix by other means). We give a proof of their result avoiding multi-scale analysis, and also extend it to the general quasi-one-dimensional model, allowing, in particular, random hopping. Furthermore, we prove a …
Since the seminal work of Anderson, localisation has been recognised as a standard mechanism allowing quantum many-body systems to escape ergodicity. This idea acquired even more prominence in the last decade as it has been argued that localisation -- dubbed many-body localisation (MBL) in this context -- can sometimes survive local interactions in the presence of sufficiently strong disorder. A conventional signature of localisation is in the statistical properties of the spectrum -- spectral statistics -- which differ qualitatively from those in the ergodic phase. Although features of the sp…
