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Spreading of wave packets in the Anderson model on the Bethe Lattice

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The spreading of wave packets evolving under the Anderson Hamiltonian on the Bethe Lattice is studied for small disorder. The mean square distance travelled by a particle in a timet is shown to grow ast 2 for larget.

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The author was supported in part by the NSF Grant DMS-9208029.

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Klein, A. Spreading of wave packets in the Anderson model on the Bethe Lattice. Commun.Math. Phys. 177, 755–773 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02099546

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