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Localization for random and quasiperiodic potentials

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A survey is made of some recent mathematical results and techniques for Schrödinger operators with random and quasiperiodic potentials. A new proof of localization for random potentials, established in collaboration with H. von Dreifus, is sketched.

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Spencer, T. Localization for random and quasiperiodic potentials. J Stat Phys 51, 1009–1019 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01014897

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