Quantitative concentration inequalities for the uniform approximation of the IDS

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Authors: Max Kämper, Christoph Schumacher, Fabian Schwarzenberger, Ivan Veselić
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Abstract

The integrated density of states (IDS) is a fundamental spectral quantity for quantum Hamiltonians modeling condensed matter systems, describing how densely energy levels are distributed. It can be interpreted as a volume-averaged spectral distribution. Hence, there are two equivalent definitions of the IDS related by the Pastur-Shubin formula: an operator-theoretic trace formula and a limit of normalized eigenvalue counting functions on finite volumes. We study a discrete random Schrödinger operator with bounded random potentials of finite-range correlations and prove a quantitative concentration inequality ensuring, with explicit high probability, that the empirical IDS (normalized eigenvalue counting function) uniformly approximates the abstract IDS trace formula within a prescribed error, thereby implying confidence regions for the IDS.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Spectral Theory in Mathematical Physics Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics Random Matrices and Applications

Publication details

Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
20 February 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Preprint