Deterministic Delocalization

Series
Math Physics Seminar
Time
Friday, January 30, 2026 - 11:00am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
David Damanik – Rice University – dtd3@rice.edu
Organizer
Matthew Powell

We present joint work with Artur Avila on delocalizing Schr\"odinger operators in arbitrary dimensions via arbitrarily small perturbations of the potential. As a consequence we obtain an analog of Simon's Wonderland Theorem for the case of dynamically defined potentials. We will discuss a mechanism based on the Feynman-Hellmann Theorem, whose infinite volume limit is instrumental in establishing delocalization in infinite volume. Furstenberg's correspondence principle then yields the desired delocalization statement in finite volume.