research article
The nature of the spectrum for a Landau hamiltonian with delta impurities
We consider a single-band approximation to the random Schr6dinger operator in an external magnetic field. The random potential consists of delta functions of random strengths situated on the sites of a regular two-dimensional lattice. We characterize the entire spectrum of this Hamiltonian when the magnetic field is sufficiently high. We show that the whole spectrum is pure point, the energy coinciding with the first Landau level in the absence of a random potential being infinitely degenerate, while the eigenfunctions corresponding to energies in the rest of the spectrum are localized.
Type
research article
Web of Science ID
WOS:A1997XK43600015
Author(s)
Date Issued
1997
Published in
Volume
87
Issue
3-4
Start page
847
End page
875
Editorial or Peer reviewed
REVIEWED
Written at
EPFL
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February 16, 2007
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